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Tübingen’s Global Ethic Institute to Found Partner Institute in China
![[Translate to Englisch:] Die strategische Partnerschaft zur Beförderung der Weltethosidee besiegelt haben v.l.n.r.: Prof. Bernd Engler, Rektor der Universität Tübingen, Professor Zhou Qifeng, Präsident der Peking Universität, Prof. Hans Küng, Präsident der Stiftung Weltethos, Prof. h.c. Karl Schlecht, Gründer des Betonpumpen-Herstellers Putzmeister und Vorstandsvorsitzender der von ihm gegründeten Karl Schlecht Gemeinnützige Stiftung (KSG), und Liang Wengen, Vorstandsvorsitzender des chinesischen Maschinenbauunternehmens Sany Group. Foto: Albrecht/Universität Tübingen](typo3temp/pics/162392b502.jpg)
Initiative strengthens strategic partnership between the University of Tübingen and Peking University
[more]Marco Polo was not a swindler – he really did go to China
A thorough new study of Chinese sources by University of Tübingen Sinologist Hans Ulrich Vogel dispels claims that Venice’s most famous traveler never truly went as far as China.
[more]Yes or no? How nerve cells in the brain influence our decisions
University of Tübingen neurobiologists show that decisions made in the absence of a stimulus are processed differently - indicating subjective decision-making processes in the brain
[more]Initial genetic analysis reveals Ötzi predisposed to cardiovascular disease
Scientific magazine “Nature Communications” publishes new findings about physiognomy, ethnic origin and predisposition towards illness of the world’s oldest glacier mummy
[more]Tübingen Economics Professor Joins Council Forging Germany’s Economic Policy
Claudia Buch becomes the second woman on the council once known as “the five wise men”
[more]Fingerprints of higher brain functions
Neuroscientists uncover novel signatures of neuronal information processing in the brain.
[more]2012 Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize to go to US Political Philosopher Seyla Benhabib
The University of Tübingen honors the work of a lobbyist for universal hospitality in the age of globalization
[more]Tübingen Prize for Quaternary Archaeology goes to US researcher Dr. Britt Marie Starkovich
An outstanding thesis analyses the changing diet of Neanderthals in the Middle and Upper Paleolithic
[more]The Basis of an Inflammatory Inhibitor
Human cells have 518 protein kinases which act as signal pathways and are also responsible for disease. Tübingen scientists have developed skepinone-L, an agent which enables individual protein kinases to be selectively...
[more]The Most Recent European Great Ape Discovered
Based on a hominid molar, scientists from Germany, Bulgaria and France have documented that great apes survived in Europe in savannah-like landscapes until seven million years ago.
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