The Eastern Himalayas are home to more than 360 different songbird species, most of which are to be found nowhere else on the planet.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved the establishment of a new collaborative research center (CRC) to be coordinated by Johannes Gutenberg…

One of the biggest riddles in physics is the apparent imbalance between matter and antimatter in our universe. To date, there is no explanation as to why…

Systems containing self-propelling particles, such as bacteria or artificial colloidal particles, are always out of equilibrium but may show interesting…

On and around 21 June this year more than 160 marine sites worldwide will be the first to take one global snapshot of the microbial diversity and functions in…

Nachhaltigkeit spielt nicht nur in der Klimaforschung oder für die Energiegewinnung eine Rolle, sondern beispielsweise auch in Sport, Gesundheit oder…

A German-Chinese research team has discovered a wasp with a unique nest-building strategy in the forests of southeast China:

A drug used to treat Parkinson’s disease could also help people with phobias or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Scientists of the Translational…

It is widely accepted that age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most common cause of visual impairment and blindness in industrialized countries….

A short movie made by the group of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stephan Barcikowski (University of Duisburg-Essen) shows the development of a dressing that promotes wound…

 A therapy combining salmon fibrin injections into the spinal cord and injections of a gene inhibitor into the brain restored voluntary motor function impaired…

It seems common practice: After a long day at work, most people sometimes just want to turn on the TV or play a video or computer game to calm down and relax.

An ice-covered expanse now has a season of increasingly open water that is predicted to extend across the whole Arctic Ocean before the middle of this century….

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered a new catalytic system for converting carbon dioxide (CO2)…

Forest clearance threatens the island’s snakes and lizards, whilst illegal collecting for trade and consumption heavily affects tortoises and turtles. Yet,…

A forward-looking article by 75 leading Antarctic researchers and science managers from 22 countries appeared online in the scientific journal Nature on 6…

A new technique developed by Elisa Konofagou, professor of biomedical engineering and radiology at Columbia Engineering, has demonstrated for the first time…

With LOFAR’s high sensitivity, the disk of M51 in the radio regime could be traced much further out than before. The astronomers detected cosmic electrons and…

New supercomputing calculations provide the first evidence that particles predicted by the theory of quark-gluon interactions but never before observed are…

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