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Even when they perform equally well in elementary school, children from less privileged families in Germany are less likely to enter the high track in secondary school. A study by the ECONtribute Cluster of Excellence at the Universities of Bonn and Cologne shows that mentoring programmes can reduce this gap.

Nematodes resist extreme aridity and unfavourable ground conditions by using various reproduction strategies and demonstrate how organisms adapt to an extreme environment.

Geoscientists from the Universities of Cologne and Göttingen develop a novel geochemical approach to analyse landscape evolution: cosmogenic krypton, a rare noble gas, provides information on how long sediments remained on the Earth’s surface

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Organisms in the Atacama Desert soil are remarkably diverse

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