Nine early-career researchers from the Max Planck Society have been awarded prestigious Starting Grants from the European Research Council (ERC), receiving up to €1.5 million each to fund their ...

Researchers in Heidelberg developed precision mechanisms for the Roman Space Telescope to make planets visible next to their ...

When a young golden eagle ( Aquila chrysaetos) finally leaves its parents’ territory, it leaves behind the only safety net it ...

'The free, AI-powered app Flora Incognita identifies plants from photos uploaded by users. It can currently recognize 32,000 plant species with high accuracy. The app aims to bring the diversity of ...

The sophisticated vocal communication systems of birds and mammals are characterized by a high degree of plasticity in which signals are individually adjusted in response to changes in the environment ...

“Until now, we knew that suppressed anger has the greatest effect on the intensification of pain experiences in patients with chronic pain. That’s why we wanted to investigate whether the experience ...

The German armed forces’ invasion of Poland started the Second World War in September 1939. But even before that, research conducted in accordance with the Nazi state’s military strategy and ...

A mysterious gravitational wave signal points to two merging black holes, each too massive to be the remnants of a star. Researchers have an idea more ...

Birds, reptiles and mammals are all amniotes, a clade of tetrapod vertebrates, whose eggs could survive outside water, hence enabling land colonization. Amniotes appeared ~320 million years ago, and ...

Few animals put on a show quite like manakins. In the rainforests of Central and South America, males of these small tropical birds, with strikingly bright plumage, often gather at communal display ...

The scientists initially focused on the DNA in the mitochondria which is small and particularly easy to retrieve. In 2008, they published the first fully decoded mitochondrial genome of a Neandertal.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory published its first telescope images on 23 June 2025 at 5:30 p.m. Central European Time. The observatory had already shared almost identical image sections in lower ...