With great regret we all had to accept the closure of the casino in the Abbe Center on Beutenberg last fall. More than 3,500 employees at the Beutenberg Campus have no longer been able to buy a daily…

Evolutionary adaptations have enabled the fruit fly Drosophila busckii to detect and thrive on toxic food sources

Extreme climate events endanger groundwater quality and stability, when rain water evades natural purification processes in the soil. This was demonstrated in long-term groundwater analyses using new…

How leaf beetles found the key to digesting plants better with the help of bacteria

Max Planck researchers identify the crucial protein for controlling the biosynthesis of steroidal glycoalkaloids and saponins in plants of the genus Solanum and for the first time demonstrate the…

Michael Müller recognized for developing the world's most powerful ultrafast fiber lasers

The Optica Foundation today announced Michael Müller is the inaugural recipient of the Valentin Gapontsev…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Max Planck researchers describe a new endosymbiont that is widespread in insects and whose ecological role needs to be further investigated.

Researchers in Jena show that chemical information is represented completely differently in the brains of these insects than in other insects or vertebrates

European Geosciences Union honors Eliane Gomes Alves, project leader in the Trumbore department, with the Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award.

The Colombia PeatSense Congress in Bogotá, enabled by an award to PhD student Antje Uhde, brought together German and Colombian peatland scientists.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…