Licking his wounds at the University of Bonn (but not for long), Schumpeter next had to flee Germany in 1932, when the Nazis rolled in.

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In one 2009 study from the University of Bonn, in Germany, researchers found that subjects prone to fits of anger had less gray matter in the amygdala, the part of the brain that regulates emotion.

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Commenting on the findings, Christian Elger and Florian Mormann, from the University of Bonn medical centre, described the results as "a major milestone... showing for the first time, to our knowledge that prospective seizure prediction is possible".

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Everyone in the coalition knows something else, adds Gerd Langguth, a professor at the University of Bonn and former CDU politician: Mrs Merkel remains more popular among voters than any potential rival or her party as a whole.

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But unlike dark energy, there are several ideas about what it might be, and one of them is the subject of a second paper, in Physical Review Letters, by Peter Biermann of the University of Bonn, in Germany, and Alexander Kusenko, of the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Christian Waldhoff, an expert for constitutional law at Bonn University, said "the rights of the German parliament have been strengthened but without tying the hands of the German government on the European stage".

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