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Diamond should help to produce fuels and chemicals from carbon dioxide and light. This is the goal of a new research consortium receiving around EUR 3.9 million in funding from the European Union. It is coordinated by Professor Anke Krueger at the University of Würzburg.

Professor Klaus Brehm from Würzburg is granted 750,000 euros for a new research project on tapeworms. His work may bring advances in fighting worm infections, but also in wholly different areas of medicine.

For the first time, Würzburg scientists have successfully bound multiple carbon monoxide molecules to the main group element boron. They report on their work in the latest issue of the scientific journal Nature.

Flies, too, remember the time of day, as scientists from the University of Würzburg found out in a series of experiments. However, several requirements have to be satisfied in order for the flies to form a memory. And under certain circumstances this mechanism does not work at all.

The FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada is currently ongoing. The German national team got off to a great start by defeating Ivory Coast 10-0. A study conducted by two Würzburg scientists reveals the effects television broadcasting of the matches can have on the audience.

The BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) is funding the setup of a junior research group at the Department of Computer Philology at the University of Würzburg. Over the following four years, the team will dedicate themselves to "Computational Literary Genre Stylistics” (CLiGS) in the field of Romance philology.