Over the long-term, what one partner in a two-person relationship wishes to avoid, so too does the other partner – and what one wants to achieve, so does the other. These effects can be observed regardless of gender, age and length of the relationship.
Physicists at the University of Basel have developed a minuscule instrument able to detect extremely faint magnetic fields. At the heart of the superconducting quantum interference device are two atomically thin layers of graphene, which the researchers combined with boron nitride. Instruments like this one have applications in areas such as medicine, besides being used to research new materials.
Learning languages in the virtual classroom: the University of Basel’s Language Center has moved the greater part of its programs online. The changes have been challenging – but the instructors are discovering new ways of teaching languages.
The European Research Council has awarded ERC Starting Grants to two scientists from Basel. The prestigious funding goes to the biochemist Prof. Dr. Maria Hondele from the University of Basel and Dr. Johannes Felsenberg from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research.
Fake news is not a phenomenon that only affects the educationally disadvantaged in our society. Academics are also prey to it, says social psychologist Professor Rainer Greifeneder. He has recently published a new book on the subject.
Researchers have revealed a new molecular mechanism by which bacteria adhere to cellulose fibers in the human gut. Thanks to two different binding modes, they can withstand the shear forces in the body.
At the Biozentrum of the University of Basel two new professors have been appointed: Professor Knut Drescher as Associate Professor of Microbiology and Biophysics, and Professor Anissa Kempf as Assistant Professor of Neurobiology. Furthermore, the University Council has promoted five lecturers and appointed three adjunct professors.
Soil loss due to water runoff could increase greatly around the world over the next 50 years due to climate change and intensive land cultivation. This was the conclusion of an international team of researchers led by the University of Basel, which published the results from its model calculation in the scientific journal PNAS.
In the body, so-called programmed cell death prevents cells with irreparable damage from surviving and turning into cancer cells. In the “EMBO Journal”, researchers at the University of Basel’s Biozentrum, report how a certain protein variant thwarts the self-destruction and thus promotes the growth of breast cancer cells.
