Tomorrow Today

Many plants are dependent on outside help to ensure that their offspring flourish. Violets enlist the aid of ants and slugs to carry away their seeds and release them where they can grow.

Around 10 million people worldwide suffer from a clouding of the cornea known as corneal dystrophy. Treatment for advanced cases usually involves a corneal transplant, but human donor tissue is hard to obtain.

Millions of pieces of debris are flying around in space and pose a huge collision danger to new spacecraft. Manuel Metz from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) talks about the battle against space junk.

The increase in global temperature has also affected Antarctica, causing melting in the Larsen Ice Shelf. Scientists on board the German research ship Polarstern are investigating the consequences.

Many space probes have investigated Mars in the last few years, and have produced fascinating and detailed images from one of the earth’s planetary neighbors. The landscapes look idyllic and dynamic.

The lake laboratory - or LakeLab - at the Stechlinsee is said to be the only one of its kind in the world.

A medicine's effectiveness depends on when it's taken. At least that's what a group of researchers from Heidelberg hope to prove.

You don’t have to be a scientific genius to understand the ‘photoelectric effect’ or ‘time relativity’. Einstein's Theories explained in an Understandable Way.