An international team led by Tim Sprenger of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy used two of the world’s most ...

For many people today, botanical knowledge doesn’t go much beyond daisies, buttercups, and dandelions. But an app is changing ...

Back in the lab, the team showed how these towers could attach to fruit flies, supporting a long-standing idea: towering ...

This high-resolution photo of the planet Mercury probably resembles the rocky exoplanet LHS 3844 b. Results from JWST ...

The diversity of facial shapes in birds and mammals is due to variations in non-coding DNA sequences Same genes, different ...

Cyanobacteria are among the oldest life forms, and appear to be the forerunners of green chloroplasts in plant cells. They do not possess a true cell nucleus, but their genetic substance is made up of ...

Humans and other mammals cycle through distinct sleep phases. One of them is easily recognized by the darting motion of the ...

Most of what scientists know about face development comes from studies in bony vertebrates such as mice, chickens, and zebrafish. However, their evolutionary counterparts, cartilaginous fishes, have ...

Although the Magdalenian in much of north-west Europe is commonly characterised as the period of the ‘reindeer hunters’ this is unlikely to have been the case in Iberia. Other lines of evidence showed ...

Rund 15 Prozent der Erwachsenen in Deutschland leiden unter Heuschnupfen, doch aktuelle Vorhersagen sind oft zu ungenau. Das ...

A technology which works on a large scale can cause unexpected problems on a small one. And these can be of a fundamental nature. This is because different laws prevail in the micro- and the ...