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Water and aqueous solutions can behave strangely under pressure. Experiments carried out at the GFZ using Raman spectroscopy and a diamond anvil cell showed that magnesium sulfate dissolved in water was separated less than expected in magnesium and…

The Alps are steadily “growing” by about one to two millimeters per year. During the Last Glacial Maximum the Alps were also coated with an ice cap that temporarily reached far into the alpine foreland. An international team with the participation of…

For the fourth time the GFZ welcomes its newly appointed professors with a formal reception. Warm welcomes and congratulations are given to nineteen newly appointed colleagues. With these new positions the regional excellence in geosciences is…

Yuri Shprits, Head of the research group Magnetospheric Physics at the GFZ section Earth’s Magnetic Field, was appointed Professor at the Institute of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Potsdam, on 24 October. Shprits was successfully…

Life took hold on land at least as early as 3.2 billion years ago, suggests a study by scientists from Berlin, Potsdam and Jena (Germany). The team led by Sami Nabhan of the Freie Universität Berlin studied ancient rock formations from South Africa’s…

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