An international team of researchers led by Maximilian Weißflog with the participation of scientists from Jena, Canberra and with support from Darmstadt has made a significant advance in quantum…
Pit-building venom mixers
A complex venom system allows antlions to overpower large prey
In a new study published in Communications Biology, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of…
Net effects of man-made nitrogen attenuate global warming
An assessment of the climate effects of nitrogen emissions from fertilisers and fossil fuels
Nitrogen fertilisers and nitrogen oxides from fossil fuels are known for their environmental damages: they…
Synthetic biology reveals the secrets of life without oxygen
ERC Advanced Grant for natural product researcher Christian Hertweck
The “AnoxyGen” project will decode novel active substances of anaerobes and elucidate their role in nature. Christian Hertweck…
Hidden partners: Symbiodolus bacteria found in various insect orders
Max Planck researchers describe a new endosymbiont that is widespread in insects and whose ecological role needs to be further investigated.
Odors are encoded in rings in the brain of migratory locusts
Researchers in Jena show that chemical information is represented completely differently in the brains of these insects than in other insects or vertebrates
Eliane Gomes Alves receives Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award
European Geosciences Union honors Eliane Gomes Alves, project leader in the Trumbore department, with the Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award.
German-Colombian research collaboration, sparked by award-winning PhD candidate
The Colombia PeatSense Congress in Bogotá, enabled by an award to PhD student Antje Uhde, brought together German and Colombian peatland scientists.
Oxidant pollutant ozone removes mating barriers between fly species
Elevated ozone levels increase the occurrence of mostly sterile hybrids between different species of the genus Drosophila
In a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the…
New habitats affect plant defense
An international team of researchers has investigated the question of whether the chemical defenses of plants changes when they have established themselves in new geographical regions. Greenhouse…
Silkmoths: Different olfactory worlds of females and males
A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, together with colleagues from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, has studied olfaction in female…
Minerals and land use determine carbon storage in soils
Carbon sequestration in soils can contribute to mitigate climate change, and soil organic matter associated with minerals has the highest capacity to store carbon. A team of researchers, including…
Customized layers: Jena researchers develop new method for manufacturing tailor-made semiconductor thin films
Organic semiconductor materials are promising key technologies for the development of state-of-the-art optoelectronic components and are used in photovoltaics as well as in sensor technology and…
Jena biophotonics expert Jürgen Popp honored for pioneering research
The winner of this year’s prestigious Charles Mann Award of the American Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) is Prof. Dr. Jürgen Popp, one of the world’s leading…
Nature is inventive - the same substance is produced differently by plants
Individual species of very different plant families produce special indole-derived defense compounds called benzoxazinoids. However, the biosynthetic pathway of these compounds was so far only known…
Illuminated: Researchers investigate new physical phenomena on the nanoscale with microstructured fibers
Researchers at Leibniz IPHT have succeeded in contributing to significant advances in deciphering tiny nanoobjects: Using special optical fibers, they identified a new optical mode that enables…
Division of labor affects the risk of infection
In a new study in Nature Communications, an international research team including scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology reports that, given the same genetic makeup, individual…
It all depends on the genetic diversity
In a recent study in PNAS, a team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, shows that a single mutation that has immediate effects on plant fitness is…
Shaping the world with light and women´s power: Leibniz IPHT offers career workshop in Jena
In order to encourage young female scientists to decide for a career in the photonics sector and to better connect them, the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz IPHT) is organizing the…
On the right track - Novel treatment approach for soft tissue tumors
Researchers from the Leibniz Institute on Aging in Jena and the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg have discovered a novel treatment approach for soft tissue tumors, which are…
Beewolf symbiosis: Protective shield for allies
The digger wasps protect their symbionts from toxic nitric oxide released by their eggs to kill pathogens
In a new study researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena and the…
Land surface temperatures follow simple physics, likely because of the complexity of the processes involved
Radiation largely shapes variations of temperatures across continents, but evaporation and turbulent heat transfer also play their part. These are inherently complex processes. Following a new…
Functional surface refinement: Targeted control of growth dynamics of finest tin layers
Nanometer-scale coatings with functional materials play an important role in many sensory, electronic and photonic applications. An international team of researchers – coordinated by Leibniz IPHT in…
Desert ants increase the visibility of their nest entrances in the absence of landmarks
If other visual cues are missing, ants build higher nest hills to facilitate homing of foraging nest mates.
Hugo Geiger Award to Robert Klas
Large-scale facilities shrink to the size of a laboratory desk, and with the help of EUV light, the needle in the haystack or the Euro on the soccer field can finally be found.
Perseverance and…