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RUB is competing for the title “University of Excellence” with the concept Creating Knowledge Networks.

Certain molecules with fluorine, chlorine or bromine, together with water, can release harmful substances into the atmosphere.

More than 4,000 international students are currently enrolled at RUB; the Student Advice Centre helps them identify potential funding options.

Researchers have combined two concepts that make the system as efficient as precious metal catalysts.

In catalysis, nature is sometimes more efficient than artificial systems. Researchers have copied one of the tricks.

Large volumes of century-old carbon are stored in forest soils. It should better stay there.

Lights out, doors open, online orders out: in a networked home, everything is controlled by voice or by pressing a smartphone button. But so far little thought has been given to who should be able to press which buttons.

Chemical molecules that behave like images and mirror images interact differently with other molecules. A new project is set to reveal more about their differences.

Dripstones reflect the climate of the past. This hypothesis is substantiated by 500-year-old graffiti.

The protein Bax is responsible for programmed cell death. Because it is constantly changing its location, its structure has so far been difficult to determine.