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Storing energy from sunlight and converting it into hydrogen days later is what a new material jointly developed by researchers from Ulm and Jena can do-even in the dark.

Biodiversity is changing across the planet, yet governments still lack the robust, consistent data needed to track these changes and guide effective conservation. Now, a new study led by the University of Amsterdam (UvA), the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), with the participation of the University of Jena, proposes a comprehensive roadmap to build a modern, integrated Biodiversity Observation Network (BON) for Europe-one that could become a global model for biodiversity monitoring in the 21st century.

A new study published in Conservation Biology shows that geotagged social media photos can significantly improve biodiversity datasets, especially in regions underrepresented in global monitoring efforts.

In 2021, Pierre Stallforth, Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry and Palaeobiotechnology at the University of Jena, and his team from the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biol

Antibiotic resistance ranks among the greatest global health risks. A research team at Friedrich Schiller University Jena has now elucidated a previously unknown mechanism by which bacterial transport proteins precisely couple energy consumption to the expulsion of antibiotics.

Almost a third of patients suffer from neurological or psychological consequences following a serious infectious disease.

Cuneiform script, invented around 3,000 years before Christ, was deciphered in the mid-19th century.

An unusually rich fossil deposit has been discovered and described by an international research team in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile.

Nitrogen is essential for plant growth-but too much of it can cause considerable damage. How forests regulate the nutrient depends not only on the trees, but also on the more inconspicuous plants in the lower layers-as a recent study by scientists at Friedrich Schiller University Jena shows.

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence »Balance of the Microverse « at the University of Jena and the Leibniz-HKI, together with international partners, have uncovered a mechanism that determines how our gut microbiome processes healthful plant compounds.

Dogs that can recognise hundreds of objects by name alone are extremely rare.

The Principality of Saxe-Jena existed for just 18 years before the last male scion, Johann Wilhelm, died in 1690 at the age of 15 and the house disappeared from History.

52% of all ground beetle species in Germany are in decline, while 22% have increased, according to the most comprehensive analysis of ground beetle distribution to date.