Key Differences Revealed Between Brains of Modern Humans and Neanderthals
Scientists uncover a greater neuron production in the frontal lobe during brain development in modern humans than Neanderthals due to the change of a single…
Scientists uncover a greater neuron production in the frontal lobe during brain development in modern humans than Neanderthals due to the change of a single…
Scientists have successfully created photon pairs at several different frequencies using resonant metasurfaces. Tomás Santiago-Cruz and Maria Chekhova from the Max Planck Institute for the…
Brief exposure to rapamycin has the same anti-aging effects as lifelong treatment. Imagine being able to take a medicine that prevents the decline that comes…
Effects are comparable to those of going to actual art galleries or even being in nature. Visits to art galleries and museums can have a…
Theoretical physicists at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) have demonstrated how the coupling between intense lasers, the motion…
Astronomers determine the time when all the neutral hydrogen gas between galaxies produced by the Big Bang became fully ionized. A group of astronomers has…
Researchers from Jena show how the poison nut tree forms strychnine. A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena…
Scientists investigated the diet of megalodon, the largest shark to have ever lived, using zinc isotopes. In a new study, researchers compared how high up…
A team of scientists at CERN led by MPQ physicist Masaki Hori discovered that a hybrid antimatter-matter atom behaves in an unexpected way when immersed…
Physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich in collaboration with Stanford University have for the first time used laser light…
Late in 2018, the gravitational wave observatory, LIGO, announced that they had detected the most distant and massive source of ripples of spacetime ever monitored:…
Researchers discover that a spot of molecular glue and a timely twist help a bacterial enzyme convert carbon dioxide into carbon compounds 20 times faster…
NASA’s FERMI Satellite Hunts for Extremely Long-wavelength Gravitational-Wave Signals Coalescing supermassive black holes in the centers of merging galaxies fill the universe with low-frequency gravitational…
Nova outbursts are apparently a source for cosmic rays. The MAGIC telescopes have observed the nova RS Ophiuchi shining brightly in gamma rays at extremely…
Bigger brains have led some species of parrot to live surprisingly long lives, new research shows. Parrots are famous for their remarkable cognitive abilities and…
Multidisciplinary research team sheds light on the 1,400-year-old mystery about the genetic origins of the Avar elite. In the 560s, the Avars established an empire…
In recent years, millions of people worldwide have suffered the loss of smell due to COVID-19. Even those who have avoided infection with the new…
Organic, carbon-based, materials already see widespread use in displays today, but they are also promising materials for new solar cells. However, tailoring their properties is…