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What Made Trees Possible?
New Research Points to Drought Survival [23.06.2026]
A newly published study in Current Biology is reframing a fundamental question in plant evolution: What made trees possible? Researchers from Cal Poly Humboldt, Yale University, the University of Hohenheim in Germany, and the Czech Academy of Sciences set out to understand how trees evolved and what allowed them to become some of the largest and longest-living organisms on...more
How the turtle got its shell: New DFG-funded Emmy Noether Research Group “Turtle Origins” [02.06.2026]
One of the major unresolved questions in evolutionary biology is how turtles originally came into being and where they fit into the tree of life. A new Emmy Noether Research Group, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), is now dedicating itself specifically to this topic. The ‘Turtle Origins’ group, led by Dr Stephan Spiekman, is based at the State Museum of Natural...more
Electricity & Rain:
Solar parks and artificial dunes could trigger rain in deserts [13.05.2026]
Sufficiently large and cleverly designed solar parks could influence the weather in coastal desert areas in such a way that it rains. A similar effect could probably also be achieved by artificial dunes several hundred meters high. This is the assessment of a research team at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart. They now intend to confirm their hypothesis in the desert on...more
Digital Campus Index:
University of Hohenheim among the top 5 in Baden-Württemberg [08.05.2026]
Certificate program for AI skills, e-exams with their own laptop, or research-based learning with robots: According to the Digital Campus Index 2026, students consider the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart to be in an above-average position when it comes to digitalization. Around 18,500 students from 179 universities across Germany have cast their vote and evaluated how...more
CHE University Ranking:
Students see Business Administration and Economics in the leading group [07.05.2026]
Excellent in terms of range of courses, study support, and supervisors: In the ranking published today by the Center for Higher Education Development (CHE), students at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart gave top ratings for all indicators. Students who are currently thinking about studying for a Bachelor’s degree can find out for themselves about the programs on offer...more