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From meme culture to discussions about gender: the new YouTube channel "überalltag" looks at social phenomena from a cultural studies perspective.

From social media to the mobility revolution - a new YouTube site, in which the University of Würzburg is involved, presents cultural studies in a way that makes it interesting for young people.

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Using X-rays (green in the picture), researchers have created 3D cinema-like effects on the kagome metal TbV6Sn6. This way, they have succeeded in tracking down the behaviour of electrons (blue and yellow in the picture) and have taken a step forward in the understanding of quantum materials.

An international team of scientists has succeeded in experimentally confirming a characteristic of topological materials. The Universities of Würzburg and the Dresden with their Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat were involved.

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From left to right: Prof Josef Penninger (HZI), Prof Dirk Heinz (HZI), Dr Renke Deckarm (EU Commission), Christian Scherf (HZI, Background), Judith Pirscher (BMBF), Dr Markus Söder (Freistaat Bayern), Prof Jörg Vogel (HIRI), Dipl-Ing Rainer Post (doranth post architekten, Background), Prof Otmar D. Wiestler (Helmholtz Association), Christian Schuchardt (Würzburg), Roland Weigert (StMWi), Prof Matthias Frosch (JMU). © HIRI / Mario Schmitt

The Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research celebrated the laying of the foundation stone on the Medical Campus in Würzburg. More than 200 guests from science, business, politics and the media were present.

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This small part from a fragment of a Book of the Dead from the Martin von Wagner Museum's holdings adorns the cover of the new handbook.

The Egyptian Book of the Dead provides unique insights into the religious life of ancient Egypt. A new handbook presents the current state of research. Co-editor is the Würzburg Egyptologist Martin Andreas Stadler.

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Women generally find jokes less funny than men. But that is only one result of the research project that has now been presented. (Photo: Zoran Mladenovic / Colourbox.de)

How do men react to jokes that make fun of them? Researchers at the Universities of Würzburg and Kaiserslautern-Landau investigated this question. The result surprised them too.

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Horned mason bees like to use nest boxes to raise their brood.

How do solitary bees and wasps recognize their homes? Biologists Dr. Sylvie Vandenabeele and Professor Thomas Schmitt investigated this question. They were able to demonstrate the importance of olfactory markers.

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Hospitals where you can get an appointment quickly; a functioning judicial system; a refuse collection service that comes regularly: all this makes for a well-functioning state.

Theresa Paola Stawski, a political scientist from Würzburg, has investigated how well the states of the world function. Germany just made it into the top ten.

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A young man wears an amulet with a magical text on a necklace in this mummy portrait from Imperial Egypt (150-200 AD). Photo: Getty Museum, Malibu.

Magical texts of the Ancient Near East, Egypt and neighbouring regions are the focus of a new research group at the University of Würzburg. The DFG is providing around 3.5 million euros for the first phase.

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Caught in the photo trap. Griffon vultures are rather unusual guests in Germany. These impressive birds inhabit more southerly climes in Europe.

In cooperation with several German national parks, researchers from the University of Würzburg are investigating the role of carrion in our ecosystems. In the Eifel National Park, unusual guests recently testified to the success of the project.

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The logo of the EU project "Remote XUAR", designed in the shape of an eye, wants to say that researchers keep an eye on the situation of the Uyghurs even from a distance.

The situation of the Uyghur population in the Chinese region of Xinjiang has been largely unclear since 2017. Researchers are now seeking an approach using remote ethnography methods as part of an EU project.

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Analysis of RNA sequencing data of immune cells (monocytes) from 215 healthy individuals. Each dot represents the transcriptional response of an individual in unstimulated monocytes (Ctrl) and after exposure to different pathogens (fungus: Aspergillus fumigatus (Af); bacteria: Neisseria meningitidis (Nm) and Staphylococcus aureus (Sa), respectively) for three and six hours. The colours indicate the stimulus and the time.

How do our genes determine the immune response to pathogens? This depends on small differences in the genome. The situation is complex, as a new study shows.

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The Würzburg cancer researcher Dr. Markus Diefenbacher.

Great recognition for translational cancer researcher Dr. Markus Diefenbacher: He was nominated as Associated Editor of the journal Oncogene.

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