Should Not Exist: Baby Star Found in Close Proximity to Milky Way’s Black Hole
A team of international researchers led by Dr. Florian Peißker at the Institute of Astrophysics at the University of Cologne has discovered a newly forming…
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23,000 Years Old: The Oldest Human Genome From Southern Spain
A genome of a human from the Ice Age refuge located in southern Spain. A team of researchers from around the world has studied ancient…
Eating at Night Linked to Depression and Anxiety-Like Moods
Eating during the day might have mental health benefits. Using food to alleviate your mood? The time of meals may have an impact on mood,…
One Sip of Alcohol Is Enough To Permanently Alter Your Brain
The study found that single-dose ethanol intoxication causes acute and long-lasting neuronal alterations in the brain. Researchers from the Universities of Cologne, Mannheim, and Heidelberg…
Scientists Discover a Molecular Switch That Controls Life Expectancy
A single protein can control aging signals more effectively than in a group. According to recent research, the protein CHIP can control the insulin receptor…
A Keto Diet Can Help Treat Polycystic Kidney Disease
Researchers investigate the treatment of polycystic kidney disease using low-carb/low-sugar diets. A team of researchers led by UC Santa Barbara scientist Thomas Weimbs released the…
How Hard Can Insects Bite? New System Allows Scientists To Obtain Previously Unknown Data
An insect bite force sensor system has been developed by researchers at the University of Bonn How hard can an insect bite? Strong chewing capabilities…
18 Million Miles per Hour: Star With the Shortest Orbital Period Around Black Hole Discovered
A newly discovered star only takes four years to travel around the black hole at the center of our Milky Way. Astronomers have discovered the…
Say Goodbye to Binge Eating: Signal Pathway in Brain That Controls Food Intake Discovered
A group of scientists has developed an entirely new approach to treating eating disorders. They showed that a group of nerve cells (so-called AgRP, agouti-related…
Researchers Set New World Record for Solar Cell Efficiency
A German research team has developed a tandem solar cell that reaches 24 percent efficiency – measured according to the fraction of photons converted into…
Shadow of Cosmic Water Cloud Reveals Secrets of Early Universe – Confirms Properties of Dark Energy
An international group of astrophysicists has discovered a new method to estimate the cosmic microwave background temperature of the young Universe only 880 million years…
NASA’s Mars Insight Lander Uses Wind-Induced Vibrations To Reveal the Red Planet’s Subsurface Layers
Seismic data collected in Elysium Planitia, the second largest volcanic region on Mars, suggest the presence of a shallow sedimentary layer sandwiched between lava flows…
Paradox of the Young Weak Sun: Extreme CO2 Greenhouse Effect Heated Up the Young Earth
Although sun radiation was relatively low, the temperature on the young Earth was warm. An international team of geoscientists has found important clues that high…
Primordial “Hyper-Eye” Discovered: Astonishing 390 Million-Year-Old Hyper-Compound Eye With 200 Lenses
Trilobites of the suborder Phacopina had a unique eye in which about 200 large lenses in each eye spanned at least six individual facets, each…
Scientists Discover Small Proteins Regulate the Aging Process
The attachment of the small protein ubiquitin to other proteins (ubiquitination) regulates numerous biological processes, including signal transduction and metabolism / Scientists at the University…
Scientists Analyze Marsquakes To Determine the Structure of Mars’ Crust
Based on the analysis of marsquakes recorded by NASA’s InSight mission, the structure of Mars’ crust has now been determined in absolute numbers for the…
Reconstructing Climate Conditions During the Migration of Homo sapiens Out of Africa
Climate reconstruction of the last 200,000 years from East Africa illustrates the living conditions of Homo sapiens when they migrated out of Africa / Homo…
“Pokemonas” – New Bacteria Related to Lung Parasites Discovered, Named After Pokémon
A research team at the University of Cologne has discovered previously undescribed bacteria in amoebae that are related to Legionella and may even cause disease….
