A super-white beetle and water-repellent floating plants: German bionics copy micro-structured surfaces from nature in order to make them technically usable
Source: KIT Karlsruhe Institute...
Bird feeding with titballs (Image: tioloco / iStock)
Whether sunflower seeds, titballs or millet: Especially in winter and spring, bird feed should help our garden...
Three-spined sticklebacks must be able to adjust to different salt levels in the Baltic Sea.
(Image: Melanie Heckwolf / GEOMAR)
Climate change is rapidly changing ecosystems...
Water: a vital resource for people, animals and plants (Image: Yevgeniy Sambulov / istock)
For this year's World Water Day on March 22nd, the United...
Wild horses in the Russian permafrost area. (Image: Pleistocene Park)
Wild horses, bison and reindeer could help slow the thawing of Arctic permafrost, a study...
Mysterious inhabitants of the Arctic Ocean: narwhals. (Image: dottedhippo / iStock)
A coiled horn, up to three meters long - what is this bizarre hallmark...
Through camera traps, researchers have gained insights into the life of the lowland gorillas. (Image: SPAC Scientific Field Station Network, Ggmb.)
This area belongs to...
The gateway to Bialowieza National Park (Photo: Shutterstock / Damian Pankowiec)
To understand the history of Białowieża, you have to go far. There was a...
A video by the Max Planck Society illustrates how severely air pollution from fine dust threatens the health and life expectancy of people worldwide.
Source:...
A group of young Spix's Macaw parrots in the breeding station. (Image: ACTP e.V.)
The Spix's Macaws (Cyanopsitta spixii) are now extinct in the wild....
A honeybee pollinating a rape plant. They and their wild relatives are threatened by the use of pesticides. (Photo: Bayer AG)
Neonicotinoids are suspected to...
Legally caught or not? (Image: Giang Nguyen / istock)
Illegal fishing is one of the greatest threats to marine ecosystems. Because the unauthorized and unregulated...
A mountain newt in daylight (top) and fluorescent in blue light (bottom). (Image: Scientific Reports, doi: 10.1038 / s41598-020-59528-9, license: CC-by-sa 4.0 )
Some...