The stronger our memory is of a certain food, the more likely we are to choose it – even if it is the more unattractive option. Psychologists at the University of Basel conducted a study on how memory influences our choices by offering various foods and using scans to track brain activity.
On August 1, 2015, the University of Basel will be under the directorship of Andrea Schenker-Wicki: in its session today, the Senate elected the economics professor from Zurich as new Rector with a comfortable majority.
As of today, the Kollegienhaus (main building) can also be visited online: Panoramic pictures on Google Street View now give insights into the campus of the University of Basel.
The latest edition of the event series “Uni-Ein-Blicke” is visiting the Confucius Institute at the University of Basel.
Physicists of the University of Basel and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute were able to show for the first time that the nuclear spins of single molecules can be detected with the help of magnetic particles at room temperature.
Generating offspring is the evolutionary goal of all living organisms. The multiplication of individual cells is coordinated by the cell cycle. A team at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has now identified the central switch for reproduction in bacteria.
The Canadian economist Professor M. Scott Taylor looks at the complex correlations between trade, environment and resources from a sound economic perspective. His guest lecture takes place April, 28 at the WWZ Auditorium.
The latest edition of the event series “Uni-Ein-Blicke” visits the zoologists Dieter Ebert and Walter Salzburger.
Offshore the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago, methane gas is seeping out of the seabed in several hundred meters depth.