Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is the most common hereditary neuropathy and affects more than two million people worldwide. Researchers at the Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Medicine and the…
Computers are gradually learning to interpret human behaviour – and can now also do so by analysing the way people use their eyes. A team…
A new study argues that the greatest defining feature of our species is not ‘symbolism’ or dramatic cognitive change, but rather its unique ecological position…
For thousands of years, people have been puzzling over the milky strip that extends across the entire firmament. In the modern era, Galileo Galilei discovered…
An international team of researchers including members of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces has discovered a self-sealing mechanism in the seed pods…
SPHERE, a planet-hunting instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, has captured the first confirmed image of a planet caught in the act of forming in…
In 2015, around 4.5 million people died prematurely from diseases attributed to ambient air pollution, including 237,000 children under the age of five from respiratory…
In the centre of the galaxy OJ 287, there is one active, super-mass-rich black hole. An international research team led by Silke Britzen of the…
With the integration of a rudimentary metabolic function into a tiny droplet, a step has been made towards advancing the borders of life. It is…
French fries, cream cake, chips and candy bars make you fat and unhealthy. Still, we cannot keep our hands off it. Scientists at the Max…
Diabetes affects more than 400 million individuals worldwide. In what is becoming a paradigm shift, researchers have begun to find that the disease may result…
An international team of scientists led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the University of Kiel has…
A team of scientists led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and the University of Göttingen has discovered gigantic swirls on the…
The first substantial cave record from coastal Kenya ranges from the Middle Stone Age to the Iron Age, showing gradual changes in cultural, technological and…
SUP05 bacteria are often found in places where there is really no basis for life for them. Researchers in Bremen have now discovered that they…
Our cerebral cortex, a sheet of neurons, connections and circuits, comprises “ancient” regions such as the hippocampus and “new” areas such as the six-layered “neocortex”,…
The first Homo sapiens fossil discovery from Saudi Arabia dates to 90,000 years ago during a time when the region’s deserts were replaced by grasslands….
Light controlled current transport by charged atoms, now demonstrated for the first time, makes new applications conceivable. Light makes some materials conductive in a previously…