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Neuronal circuits in the brain 'sense' our inner state

Animals have an innate preference for certain scents and tastes. Attractive scents are linked to things like good food. Less attractive scents – that of…

Life & Chemistry

Uncovering the Science Behind Brown Algae’s Coloration

For many people algae are just an odorous nuisance on their vacation beach or unwelcome guests in the garden pond and aquarium.

Information Technology

Color Barcode Achieves ISO Standard for Enhanced Tracking

Black and white barcodes can be found everywhere in everyday life: on packaging, parcel shipping labels, on the backs of books and more. However, these…

Life & Chemistry

New Substance Library Accelerates Active Compound Search

For several years now, the team of the Macromolecular Crystallography Department (MX) at HZB headed by Dr. Manfred Weiss together with the Drug Design Group…

Life & Chemistry

Unveiling the Structure of Natural Photosynthesis

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have uncovered the molecular architecture and organisational landscape of thylakoid membranes from a model…

Life & Chemistry

Why Green Frogs Thrive: Nature’s Camouflage Uncovered

Frogs and toads are green for a very good reason – it makes them harder to see in their leafy environments.

Health & Medicine

New Antiviral Mechanism for Dengue Virus Discovered

Dengue virus is a very important mosquito-transmitted viral pathogen, causing 390 million human infections each year. Dengue is common in more than 100…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Space to grow, or grow in space — how vertical farms could be ready to take-off

The interdisciplinary study combining biology and engineering sets down steps towards accelerating the growth of this branch of precision agriculture,…

Interdisciplinary Research

Ecological Farming’s Impact on Agricultural Biodiversity

How does ecological farming influence plant biodiversity in the agricultural landscape?

Life & Chemistry

Bird Diversity Declines in the Alps Amid Climate Change

Ecologists believe that global climate change has had a particularly strong impact on animals and plants living in alpine regions, with expected changes in the…

Life & Chemistry

Br2 Molecule Polarization in Vanadium Oxide Enhances Bromination

The bromine molecule (Br2) is widely used for bromination of a variety of organic compounds, where bromination reactions take place via a radical mechanism*2).

Physics & Astronomy

Black Phosphorus Heterostructures Enhance Mid-Infrared Emission

BP has a thickness-dependent (0.3-2 eV) bandgap, and the bandgap size can be further tuned through introducing external electric field or chemical doping….

Life & Chemistry

Alternative methods to animal testing: VISION – A microfluidic chip system as an alternative to animal experiments

Animals as model organisms have so far often been essential for pharmaceutical research – they often provide important information on the efficacy of drugs or…

Life & Chemistry

New Technique Revealed for Studying Superheavy Elements

Superheavy elements are intriguing nuclear and atomic quantum systems that challenge experimental probing as they do not occur in nature and, when synthesized,…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Halide Perovskites and Solar Cells: A Complex Relationship

Solar cells made of perovskite are at the center of much recent solar research. The material is cheap, easy to produce and almost as efficient as silicon, the…

Earth Sciences

Satellite Data Reveals 2018-2019 Drought Severity Insights

Relative to long-term climate development, the water mass deficits during the two consecutive summer droughts of 2018 and 2019 amounted to 112 Gt in 2018 and…

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