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  3. Amoebae: Master Tunnel Builders

    Researchers from Jena, Cambridge and Bengaluru discover a special communication pathway in social amoebae—and a possible building block on the path to complex life

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    The microscopic image shows amoebae cells connected to one another via tunnelling nanotubes (arrow). The nanotubes enable the exchange of cellular contents between the amoebae. The amoeba cells are shown in orange, and the cellular material in blue. The scale bar is 10 µm long.
    Image: Harikumar Suma | Leibniz-HKI

  4. Oil beetle larvae smell like flowers to manipulate bees

    For the first time, a research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and University of Jena has demonstrated that insects can mimic floral scents to manipulate pollinators

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    The female European oil beetle (Meloe proscarabaeus): These flightless, highly poisonous beetles are hard to miss during spring walks through fields and meadows.
    Image: Danny Kessler

  5. Romantic relationships as therapy

    Study examines the link between »dark« personality traits and relationship quality

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    Two outstretched hands, belonging to two different people, are moving towards each other.
    Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)

  7. Life on the energy limit

    New framework concept on microbial frugality explains changes in groundwater

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    Dr Will Overholt (left) and Prof. Dr Kirsten Küsel are collecting samples in the Hainich. Findings from this research have also been incorporated into the framework.
    Image: Beatrix Heinze

  12. How did Hannibal get his elephants across the Alps?

    A new analysis led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, and the University of Oxford sheds light on the most likely route.

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    About thirty-seven African elephants marched with Hannibal across the Alps. The photo was taken on Mount Kenya.
    Image: Saba Douglas-Hamilton
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