Animals have an innate preference for certain scents and tastes. Attractive scents are linked to things like good food. Less attractive scents – that of…
For many people algae are just an odorous nuisance on their vacation beach or unwelcome guests in the garden pond and aquarium.
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…
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…
Researchers at the University of Liverpool have uncovered the molecular architecture and organisational landscape of thylakoid membranes from a model…
Frogs and toads are green for a very good reason – it makes them harder to see in their leafy environments.
Dengue virus is a very important mosquito-transmitted viral pathogen, causing 390 million human infections each year. Dengue is common in more than 100…
The interdisciplinary study combining biology and engineering sets down steps towards accelerating the growth of this branch of precision agriculture,…
How does ecological farming influence plant biodiversity in the agricultural landscape?
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…
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).
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….
Animals as model organisms have so far often been essential for pharmaceutical research – they often provide important information on the efficacy of drugs or…
Superheavy elements are intriguing nuclear and atomic quantum systems that challenge experimental probing as they do not occur in nature and, when synthesized,…
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…
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…