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Scientists use text symbols to abbreviate chemical elements. Symbols are also used in mineralogy to shorten the names of minerals. This year, the International Mineralogical Association – Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (IMA-CNMC) has approved a list of 5744 standardised…

This year’s Greifswald Research Award in the category ‘Senior’ was received by Prof. Dr. Michael Rodi at the award ceremony held on 21 October 2021. The Director and Academic Coordinator of the Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility (IKEM) was awarded the prize for his long-term…

Researchers from the University of Greifswald, a partner of the Greifswald Mire Centre, presented a detailed map of the world’s peatlands in the Peatland Pavilion at the Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, on 9 November 2021. The map links data collected from decades of research into the…

This year’s Virchow Prize from the Aktionsbündnis Thrombose (Thrombosis Action Group) was awarded to Professor Dr. Andreas Greinacher, Head of the Department of Transfusion Medicine at University Medicine Greifswald’s Institute of Immunology und Transfusion Medicine. He received the prize and €…

An international research consortium is developing a screening programme for cervical cancer detection as part of the project CHILI. The programme is being conducted in Ethiopia, Uganda, Mozambique and Cambodia and aims to make a significant contribution to the fight against cervical cancer in…

Prof. Dr. Uwe Bornscheuer has been awarded the ‘European Lipid Technology Award 2021’ from the ‘European Federation for the Science and Technology of Lipids’ (EuroFedLipid) for his research into this field that spans several decades. The prize honours his work towards the development of enzymes. The…

By rewetting peatlands, novel ecosystems are formed that show new hydrological, geochemical and vegetational properties. Their functions have to be analysed differently, i.e. previous knowledge about how near-natural peatlands function is only partly relevant. This is the conclusion from the results…

Physicists call the atomic nucleus of tin-100 doubly magic because it simultaneously has two shell closures. Nevertheless, it is very difficult to measure its mass. An international group of scientists at the European research centre CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) including…

After a concept phase of two years, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO) is now entering its first research phase (2021–2026). The official digital launch took place on 2 June 2021. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding the interdisciplinary…

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans Joosten needs only three words to describe his lifelong mission: “Mires require moisture!” The peatland scientist is now receiving one of the highest endowed awards of its kind in Europe for his research and his fight against peatland drainage and thus for more climate…