Biology

Agri-PV: More than just electricity from the field

Agri-photovoltaics combines solar energy and agriculture on the same area. © Research Center Jülich / Sascha Kreklau Agri-photovoltaics is considered a promising...

Combined droughts and heat waves have increased sharply

Combined heat-drought weather extremes have increased. © leolintang/ iStock The combination of heat and drought is particularly dangerous for people and nature:...

Smart natural capital

Our lives are made up of transactions, almost everything has value. But what value can we give to protecting biodiversity, i.e. nature - from...

How wild cats adapt to human influences

A wild cat goes hunting in a grain field - outside of its usual forest habitat (illustration). © Chris Baumann European wildcats are actually shy...

Tiny dinosaur from Argentina provides new insights into evolution

This is what the small dinosaur Alnashetri cerropolisiensis might have looked like around 90 million years ago. © Gabriel Diaz Yantén A nearly complete miniature...

Rare ant species consists only of queens

Several light brown, winged young queens of the parasitic ant species Temnothorax kinomurai can be seen in this nest. The dark ants are workers...

How horses neigh

A horse neighing. How do these animals produce high and low tones at the same time? © Elodie Briefer Horse neighing consists of a unique...

The Earth’s “green wave” is shifting

The greening of vegetation changes with the seasons. The center of gravity shifts alternately to the north and south. © Guido Kraemer The annual greening...

Skulls from China are the oldest Homo erectus fossils in East Asia

Fossils and reconstruction of two of the three early human skulls from Yunxian, China. © Xiaobo Feng Homo erectus is considered to be the first...

Why the elephant trunk is so sensitive

In the sunlight, the many whiskers on the elephant's trunk can be clearly seen. © Heidelberg Zoo, Alejandro Posada/ Max Planck Institute for Intelligent...

Hidden insect diversity inside blades of grass

Two females of the parasitic wasp Torymus arundinis pierce rice grain galls of the gall midge Giraudiella inclusa in a reed stalk. © Tscharntke,...

Honey bees fly more precisely than expected

Honey bees fly to their food sources from the hive with surprising precision. © kojihirano/ iStock Honey bees pollinate a large proportion of our crops...

An ant made from Goethe’s amber

Ant in amber: 3D reconstruction in front of the amber piece from Goethe's collection. © Bernhard Bock/Daniel Tröger Even around 200 years after Johann Wolfgang...

Seaweed as an underestimated carbon store

Greenland seaweed stocks, such as the bladderwrack shown here, can make a major contribution to long-term carbon storage and thus help with climate protection....

Surprising species discovery in the North Sea

Marine biologists have discovered five new species of copepods in the North Sea - here colored differently. © Sven Rossel The German North Sea is...

Additive reduces methane emissions from manure

In manure storage, microbes metabolize the manure and release climate-damaging methane and nitrous oxide. However, a simple additive can minimize these emissions. © Lietze/ATB Livestock...

CO2 prices affect heating costs – but not everywhere

The planned uniform CO2 price will change heating costs, but not to the same extent everywhere. © Axel Bueckert/iStock From 2028, a uniform EU-wide CO2...

Criminal energy against the environment

How can crime entertain and educate when combined with the triple crisis of biodiversity loss, global pollution and the climate crisis? You might ask...

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