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Research for all: Why do you slam?
Students and researchers at LMU frequently compete in Science Slams. We explore the appeal of these events and what motivates the participants.
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Frontotemporal dementia:therapeutic approach for gene therapy
Pre-clinical trials: A new therapeutic approach for the severe condition uses modified viruses to replace a missing protein in the brain.
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"The bourgeois nuclear family - an invention of the 19th century"
Professor Susanne Lüdemann and her team are investigating how the portrayal of families in media and literature has evolved.
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"Really?" - the new issue of INSIGHTS
"Echt jetzt" - the new issue of EINSICHTEN The new edition of the research magazine EINSICHTEN is out, with the main topic: "Really? Is the boundary between natural and artificial increasingly fading?" Click here for the highlights.
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Polyglot machines
How artificial intelligence learns the rich variety of human languages: Hinrich Schütze, computational linguist at LMU, researches multilingual software that can do small languages. From the research magazine EINSICHTEN
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From the steppe to the city
A social transformation is underway in Mongolia, as many nomadic pastoralists move to urban areas. Geographer Lukas Lehnert investigates what this means for the environment and ecosystems. From the research magazine EINSICHTEN
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