The “pill” was once hailed as medical revolution, later it became the most widely used form of contraceptive. In recent years, however, hormonal contraceptives have increasingly come under critical ...

Professor Solveig Richter, Professor of International Relations and Transnational Politics at Leipzig University and a member of the Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics, assesses the conflict from ...

Wildfires, storms, and bark beetles have a major impact on forests and the benefits they provide for people and the environment. For the first time, a large international team led by researchers at ...

Twisted electronic states in a molecule realized experimentally and modeled on quantum hardware.

Researchers from the University of Cologne and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry show that the targeted interaction of two proteins ensures that a key control mechanism in the formation of ...

Villages can provide important habitats for insects. A new study by the University of Würzburg shows which areas in rural settlements are particularly rich in species – and where there is still room ...

Up to half of the insects in the Amazon region could be exposed to life-threatening heat levels due to progressive, anthropogenic global warming. This is shown by a recent study by the universities of ...

Leibniz-Institut für Zoo- und Wildtierforschung (IZW) im Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.

Composition, interactions and resulting inhalation risk of micro- and nano-plastics in urban air. Commun Earth Environ 6, 985 (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02980-0 This research was funded by the ...

Sarah Ciston is an artist and researcher who develops tools to create intersectional, critical-creative approaches to machine learning. Ciston was the winner of the Ars Electronica STARTS Grand Prize ...

Young adults are more likely to consume healthcare when it is available via healthcare apps, and even more so if they do not have to pay patient fees. This has been shown in a study carried out at the ...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has published the new call for proposals for the infrastructure priority program “New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences” (SPP 2431). Interested researchers are ...