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Dr. Peter Schad, Chair of Soil Science (TUM), was awarded the Guy Smith Medal on 2 August 2022 during the XXII. World Congress of Soil Science in Glasgow. The medal is assigned by the… [read more]

Forest ecosystems are central to life on Earth. However, forest ecosystems worldwide are undergoing rapid transformation. Prof. Rupert Seidl, Professor of Ecosystem Dynamics and Forest… [read more]

Malnutrition is a key challenge not only in African countries. As an international study now shows, egg powder is a food with great potential to improve the nutritional situation of children… [read more]

Only very few drugs show significant benefit across the general patient population due to imprecise targeting. As a consequence, often symptoms of a disease rather than its molecular cause… [read more]

Climate change is putting increasing pressure on forests. In recent years substantial forest areas have died off in Central Europe as a result of climate extremes. With the participation of… [read more]

Flowers are plant’s sexual structures that are normally assumed to have evolved in concert with their mutualistic pollinators, such as bees, butterflies and honeybirds. However, a new study… [read more]

The disruptions in global trading markets resulting from the war in Ukraine, among other causes, have focused public attention on the issue of securing a sufficient supply of high-quality… [read more]

Plant development and growth processes are significantly regulated by a hormone whose effect already fascinated Charles Darwin. A team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), in… [read more]

Academia Europaea, an academy with individual members from the Council of Europe states and from other countries around the world, currently has about 5000 members. All of them are… [read more]

Intensive land use, nutrient inputs, invasive species, and climate change are accelerating the losses of native species and essential ecosystem services. In a lecture within the TUM@Freising… [read more]