Interdisciplinary Research

News and developments from the field of interdisciplinary research.

Among other topics, you can find stimulating reports and articles related to microsystems, emotions research, futures research and stratospheric research.

Novel Batteries and Neural Networks

This year, the Carl Zeiss Foundation’s funding for interdisciplinary research topics goes twice to the University of Jena: Starting 1st February, 2024, the funding for Dr Sina Saravi begins, who…

Locusts’ sense of smell boosted with custom-made nanoparticles

Wash U researchers amplify neuron signals from insect brain to achieve better chemical sensing performance. Our sensory systems are highly adaptable. A person who cannot see after turning off a…

How HIV smuggles its genetic material into the cell nucleus

Around one million individuals worldwide become infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, each year. To replicate and spread the infection, the virus must smuggle its genetic material into…

Shape matters: How microplastic travels that far

New study: Microplastic fibers are settling substantially slower than spherical particles in the atmosphere and might even reach stratosphere. How far microplastics travel in the atmosphere depends crucially on particle…

Mummies under the magnifying glass

Interdisciplinary team at the University of Jena, Germany conducts further provenance research on items from its own collections. This has led to new findings on the mummy fragments and in…

Hydrogen through Sunlight

Researchers at Friedrich Schiller University Jena Develop Sustainable Catalyst System for Hydrogen Production Using Light Energy. For hydrogen to be sustainably produced using sunlight, it’s not just an efficient catalyst…

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