Lifesaver for wild bees: the importance of quarries

Environment - Dec 4
Environment

Connectivity and maintenance measures support wild bees in limestone quarries. A research team at the University of Göttingen, Germany's Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) in Rhede, and the Thünen Institute in Braunschweig has investigated the importance of limestone quarries for wild bee conservation.

Physics - Dec 4

Milestone in Defining Electrical Units

Physics

Scientists at the University of Würzburg and the German national metrology institute (PTB) have carried out an experiment that realizes a new kind of quantum standard of resistance. It's based on the Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect.

Environment - Nov 29

Protecting the world’s bonobo stronghold

Environment

A twenty-year study in Congo's largest protected park confirms that rangers are effective in preserving endangered bonobos.

Animal products improve child nutrition in Africa

Agronomy & Food Science

A study by the University of Bonn and the CABI Centre in Kenya shows that milk, eggs and fish are good for child development.

Environment - Nov 28

Are trees exchanging carbon via a wood wide web?

Environment

Research team led by Göttingen University studies carbon movement from tree to root fungi. The idea of trees "talking" to one another through underground fungal networks - the so-called "wood wide web" - has captured the imagination of the public.

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