Light creates safety through street lighting, enables us to work at night or illuminates our city centers at Christmas time - and thus affects almost all'areas of our daily lives.

Life Published: 15 May 2025, 13:50 Researchers from Cluster of Excellence "Balance of Microverse" at the University of Jena, in collaboration with international partners, have developed a new tool that significantly simplifies and accelerates the genetic analysis of viruses.

On April 13, 2029, the asteroid Apophis will fly past Earth. Researchers at the University of Würzburg are now developing a concept for two small satellites that will rendezvous with Apophis in space and collect photographs of it.

Dr. Katharina C. Cramer, Nicolas Rüffin, and Dr. Kristofer Rolf Söderström have successfully made the transition from researchers to entrepreneurs and founded the start-up TILLER ALPHA GmbH in early 2025.

Wild bees are considered food specialists. They often only collect their nectar from a few or even a single plant.

An international research team, including researchers from the Department of Biology at the University of Hamburg, sequenced the complete genomes of 6 primate species that are closely related to humans.

A study led by the University of Bonn has illuminated the mechanism by which this marine creature produces the detergent The marine bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis feeds on oil, multiplying rapidly in the wake of oil spills, and thereby accelerating the elimination of the pollution, in many cases.

Study by communication scientist Volker Gehrau: EU requirements for accessible online services rarely implemented Directive (EU) 2016/2102, adopted by the European Union in 2016, is unequivocal: all public sector bodies are required to make their websites and mobile applications accessible.

University of Bonn physicist Matthias Schott awarded €1 million in DFG funding Technology is being pushed to its very limits.

From biomolecules to legal aspects: the BIOSTORE project features collaborations from a range of disciplines Thinking further afield in battery research: the scientists working on the BIOSTORE projec

Companies are faced with the challenge of processing ever-increasing amounts of data efficiently.

Researchers at the University of Stuttgart have used microbial processes to produce environmentally friendly bioconcrete from urine as part of a "wastewater-bioconcrete-fertilizer" value chain.

Fascism is not a template, but an ideology of action, emphasizes historian Dr. Daniel Hedinger from the University of Leipzig.

To the point More curious: Orangutans in zoos explore more frequently and in more varied ways than those in the wild, including greater use of tools and multiple objects.