Marine Worm Thrives on Steady Diet of Deadly Poisons
If you thought living on fast-food, candy, soda and red meat was dangerous, try a diet of carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulfide. That’s what researchers…
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Amorfrutins in Liquorice Root Have Important Anti-Diabetic Effects
It not only serves as a tasty raw material for candy, it has medicinal purposes as well. Scientists have found that the liquorice root contains…
DNA Jumps Directly From the Cell’s Chloroplasts Into Its Nucleus
By subjecting cells to high selection pressure in a laboratory setting, researchers at Max Planck Institute were able to fast-forward gene transfer from the chloroplasts…
Rational Thinking Ruled Out as Reason for Children’s Selective Imitation
It turns out that infants might not be using rational thinking as a reason for selective imitation. A new study suggests that observed differences in…
Crab Nebula Emits Pulses at Unexplainable Levels
Astrophysicists knew the pulses emitted from the Crab Nebula were powerful, but what they found was 50 to 100 times higher than theorists thought possible….
Black Band Disease Puts Great Barrier Reef at Risk
The Great Barrier Reef is under attack by a disease and new data shows that the Black Band Disease can migrate at a rate fast…
High Quality Microlenses from Calcium Carbonate Structures
By studying the brittlestar Ophiocoma wendtii, whose body is covered with tiny crystalline lenses made of calcium carbonate, scientists were able to create high quality…
VPM1002 Tuberculosis Vaccine in Phase II Trial
It’s hard to believe that the only tuberculosis vaccine currently available is over 90 years old. Since the BCG vaccine only protects young children, scientists…
Simulating Quantum Walks in Two Dimensions
A team of physicists is the first to successfully realize a quantum walk in two dimensions and believe by simulating these quantum walks, physicists could…
Ultracold Atoms as Quantum Simulators
By following the dynamics of a quantum system of strongly correlated ultracold atoms in an optical lattice, a team of physicists has demonstrated the superiority…
Gas Flows Back Into Star-Forming Galaxies
To better understand how galaxies continue to turn one solar mass’s worth of matter per year into stars, a team of astronomers examined gas associated…
Desert Ants Need Very Few Landmarks for Orientation
While studying desert ants, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology discovered that ants were able to use magnetism and vibrational signals in…
DnaK Identified as Key Player of Protein Folding
A new published report from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry shows how different chaperones cooperate during the folding process. The scientists found that the…
Molecules as Antennas Transmit Signals of Single Photons
In recent experiments, Scientists from the Max Planck Institute and ETH Zurich have transmitted single photons between the smallest antennas in the world, i.e. between…
New Software Simplifies 3D Animations
New software for creating advanced 3D characters like those seen in blockbuster films will allow inexperienced users a chance to create their own movie magic….
Dynamics of a System of Ultracold Potassium Atoms
A new publication demonstrates that the dynamics of a system of ultracold potassium atoms, trapped in an optical lattice, depend surprisingly strongly on the particle…
Nose Spray for Panic Attacks? Intranasal Neuropeptide S Lowers Anxiety
New findings show a non-invasive way to administer anxiolytic neuropeptide S (NPS). While working with mice, the findings show that intranasally administered neuropeptide S was…
Researchers Use Bioinformatics and Epigenetics to Aid Cancer Research
A computational epigenetics research group at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken is using software programs to rummage through the genomes of cancer…
