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When Species Are Forced to Move: Prediction Models Underestimate Climate-Related Extinction Risk

Media Information 10-07-2026 / Nr. 062

Climate change threatens many plant and animal species not only when their habitats disappear as climatic conditions change, but also when those …
Zwei Männer in einem Labor, einer sitzt und arbeitet, der andere steht hinter ihm und erklärt etwas.

Living on the Edge – Super-Assembly helps microorganisms adapting

How can microorganisms survive in extreme environments such as volcanic lakes or salt marshes? A giant metalloenzyme makes it possible: the …
Dr. Mariana Chiuffo

Plant Communities in Times of Global Change – Mariana Chiuffo Is Conducting Research as a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biology

Dr. Mariana Chiuffo is an ecologist. She conducts research at the Institute for Research on Biodiversity and the Environment (INIBIOMA, Universidad …
Detailaufnahme in einem aLabor mit Solarzelle

Boosting Performance – Breakthrough in Organic Solar Cells

Media Information 23-06-2026 / Nr. 052

Although the efficiency of organic solar cells has now risen to over 20 percent, there are physical limits that make it difficult to further increase …
Rudolf Zeidler

Do you dream about formulas and curved spaces at night? – 33 Questions to Rudolf Zeidler, Professor of Geometry

What is an irrefutable law in the plane does not necessarily apply to space: In differential geometry, there is still a lot of potential for …
The MID instrument at European XFEL with the AGIPD 1M detector used in the study in the centre.

When hot electrons pound on metals

Media Information 18-06-2026 / Nr. 050

How does light turn into motion within a metal? A team of researchers from European XFEL, the University of Potsdam and other participating …
Patrick Arnold in conversation.

Did You Know that… Hippos Bathed in the Rhine During the Ice Age? – Paleogeneticist Patrick Arnold explains why hippos populated Europe during the Ice Age

Not many fields of research unearth an entire hippopotamus during the search for the proverbial needle in a haystack. For paleogeneticist Patrick …
Wolfgang Morgenroth is a research associate at the Institute of Geosciences.

The Structure of Things – A wide range of chemical compounds are analyzed using X-rays in laboratories at the University of Potsdam

What do diamonds and the lead of a pencil have in common? They are both made of carbon. The fact that graphite can be smudged onto a sheet of paper …
Skeleton of an interglacial, ~120,000 years old fallow deer (Dama (dama) geiselana) from Neumark Nord.

120,000-year-old European fallow deer – Tracing the loss of genetic diversity

Medieninformation 04-06-2026 / Nr. 047

European fallow deer faced a dramatic loss of genetic diversity since the last interglacial period. This was revealed by 120,000-year-old fossils from …
Valeriya Denisova in the laboratory at the Leibniz Institute for Vegetable and Ornamental Crops in Großbeeren

Sea lettuce from Brandenburg – Nutritionist Valeriya Denisova has been awarded the Better World Award for her research on the macroalgae Ulva compressa

They are rich in nutrients, grow quickly, and can be cultivated in various environments: algae! Given global population growth, algae biomass is …