Cod hardly have any offspring in the western Baltic Sea. (Image: I. Oelrichs)
Scientists and fishermen are sounding the alarm: In the western Baltic...
Researchers have sequenced the genome of the Iberian mole and uncovered the basis of the masculinization of females. (Photo: David Carmona, University of...
Flagella, long fibers, bizarre appendages ... Researchers have gained useful insights into how cells can create so many different membrane structures.
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A young pond swallow is begging for food. (Image: SteveByland / iStock)
Dangerous adaptation to global warming: If insectivorous birds breed earlier, they risk...
To what extent can values ​​be assigned to the services of nature? The environmental economist Bernd Hansjürgens from the Helmholtz Center for Environmental...
Examples of threatened carnivorous plants. (Image: Robinson / Krueger / Fleischmann)
A quarter of all carnivorous plant species are threatened with extinction worldwide, according...
Desert locust with an indicated polarization pattern of the sunlight. (Image: Keram Pfeiffer)
Desert locusts sometimes migrate several hundred kilometers. As researchers have...
Together with the common chimpanzee, the bonobos represent our closest relatives in the animal kingdom. The truffle-like mushroom can be seen in the...
Great Noctule (Image: Anton Vlaschenko)
Adaptation to climate change: Great noctule bat - one of the largest native bat species - shift their wintering areas...
Researchers have looked into birds' brains. (Photo: Tobias Machts / University of Tübingen)
On the trail of amazing bird intelligence: Two studies now shed...