Neanderthals have adopted male sex chromosome from modern humans. In 1997, the very first Neanderthal…
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Male chimpanzees who lose their mother early in life are less competitive and have fewer…
According to the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, cancer is one of the most frequent…
Most of the matter in the Universe is dark and thus not directly observable. In…
Thanks to a metabolic adjustment, the cells can remain functional despite damage to the mitochondria.…
New archaeological research in Saudi Arabia documents hundreds of stone structures interpreted as monumental sites…
Deep-sea anglerfishes have evolved a curious reproductive strategy. Tiny males attach themselves to gigantic females…
First six reference-quality bat genomes released and analyzed. For the first time, the raw genetic…
Physicists succeed at engineering an optical mirror made of only a few hundred atoms. It…
People who inherited a special ion channel from Neanderthals experience more pain. As several Neanderthal…
In 2019, the MAGIC telescopes detected the first Gamma Ray Burst at very high energies.…
The meridional flow in the Sun’s convection zone forms one gigantic cell in each hemisphere.…
An international team of scientists is investigating how animals are responding to reduced levels of…
LIGO and Virgo Find Another Surprising Binary System The harvest of exceptional gravitational-wave events from…
Two prominent X-ray emission lines of highly charged iron have puzzled astrophysicists for decades: their…
The star Kepler-160 and its companion KOI-456.04 are more reminiscent of the Sun-Earth system than…
According to a study, the number of undetected cases of infected persons differs significantly in…
For the first time, it is possible to produce crystalline layers of precious metals that…