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Ancient Fat Reveals Earliest Known Animal, Dickinsonia

The strange creature called Dickinsonia, which grew up to 1.4 metres in length and was oval shaped with rib-like segments running along its body, was part of…

Life & Chemistry

One-Way Street for Salt: Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture

A growing world population means that more food is needed which in turn may require more land to grow food crops. More agriculture, however, results in…

Life & Chemistry

Nerve cells in the human brain can “count”

We are born with the ability to count: Shortly after birth, babies can estimate the number of events and even perform simple calculations. But what exactly…

Life & Chemistry

CT45: A Breakthrough in Ovarian Cancer Treatment Strategies

Ovarian Cancer

Life & Chemistry

Viruses Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Threat

Emergence of antimicrobial resistance is a major threat to global health. Worldwide, more than 700,000 people died due to impaired action of antibiotic agents,…

Earth Sciences

Glacial Engineering: A Key to Mitigating Sea-Level Rise

“Doing geoengineering means often considering the unthinkable,” says Moore, a scientist at Beijing Normal University, China, and a professor of climate change…

Life & Chemistry

Study Finds Larger Brain Region for Stress Control in Depression

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) 322 million people worldwide were affected by depression in 2015—4.4 percent of the world’s population. In the…

Information Technology

Adaptive Radar Systems Enhance Smart Driver Assistance

Driver assistance systems have to ensure reliable operation in the whole range of different traffic conditions: In city traffic, for instance, they have to…

Physics & Astronomy

NOEMA: Advancing Radio Telescope Technology in Astronomy

NOEMA (NOrthern Extended Millimeter Array) is part of a completely new generation of radio telescopes: it consists of an array of several movable telescopes…

Physics & Astronomy

What even Einstein didn't know

When a solid body is irradiated with X-rays, electrons separate from it and move towards the surface. But how long does this take? This question was…

Health & Medicine

Unmasking Narcolepsy: Key Insights Into the Enigmatic Disease

Patients with a rare disease, called narcolepsy, suffer of excessive daytime sleepiness and cataplexy (brief episodes of loss of muscle tone triggered by…

Earth Sciences

Caution Advised: Overestimating CO2 Removal Technologies

They also warn of hubris in regard to the expansion of NETs, since the technologies’ large-scale applicability may be overestimated in the climate models. The…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights on Quantum Chromodynamics Phase Transition

Then, in a phase transition, they combined and formed hadrons, among them the building blocks of atomic nuclei, protons and neutrons. In the current issue of…

Life & Chemistry

Interfacial engineering core@shell nanoparticles for active and selective direct H2O2 generation

Hitherto, the direct synthetic route is mainly achieved by the supported Pd-based catalysts. The major problem associated with that is related to the low…

Information Technology

Enjoying virtual-reality-entertainment without headache or motion sickness

VR glasses are increasingly popular. Not only are computer fans enthusiastic about them, virtual tours through museums or exhibitions are possible, and…

Earth Sciences

Is the Baltic Sea acidifying?

Great advancement for pH-monitoring in the Baltic Sea: For a better observation of possible acidification trends in brackish waters, Jens Müller, marine…

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