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MNF - Top News
MNF - Top News
Frauenförderung: Mit gezielten Massnahmen gegen die «leaky pipeline»
Wenn es um Gleichstellung und Förderung von Frauen auf Ebene der Professuren geht, taucht früher oder später der Begriff der «leaky pipeline» auf. Mit der undichten Pipeline ist das Phänomen gemeint, dass in den auf Männer...[more]
Drought makes Borneo’s trees flower at the same time
A drought period causes the trees in Borneo’s tropical forests to flower at the same time. Evolutionary biologists from the University of Zurich have identified two genes that indicate when the plants are about to flower. By...[more]
14 closely related crocodiles existed around 5 million years ago
14 species of crocodile lived in South America around 5 million years ago, at least seven of which populated the coastal areas of the Urumaco River in Venezuela at the same time. Paleontologists from the University of Zurich have...[more]
Sea level: one third of its rise comes from melting mountain glaciers
About 99% of the world’s land ice is stored in the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, while only 1% is contained in glaciers. However, the meltwater of glaciers contributed almost as much to the rise in sea level in the...[more]