Discovery: An international team has discovered a dark object in the distant universe that has one million times the mass of ...

Mammals vs birds: Among the 1,176 species studied, female mammals live on average 13 percent longer than males, while among ...

The sociologist Steffen Mau has been appointed as a Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and ...

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in public administration is increasing worldwide—including in the allocation of ...

A novel substance disrupts stress management in cancer cells and offers new therapeutic approaches to treating tumours.

In the summer of 2022, less than a full month after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) had begun to produce its first scientific images, astronomers noticed something unexpected: little red dots.

New event-horizon-telescope (EHT) images of M87* reveal unexpected flips in polarized light between 2017 and 2021, showing that magnetic fields near the black hole are dynamic and evolving. For the ...

In humans, learning social norms and traditions often require third-party imitation of two or more interacting community members in order to integrate into groups, adopt group-specific behaviours and ...

Potatoes are the fourth most important crop in the world after rice, wheat, and corn—and play a crucial role in feeding the global population. However, little is known about the genetic diversity of ...

Dopamine is the most important messenger substance of the reward system in the brain and is released when, for example, goals are achieved or desire for something motivates us to take action. In ...

Thomas Hunt Morgan has now been studying flies in his "fly laboratory" at Columbia University for two years. Day after day, the trained geneticist feeds thousands of these insects, a mere three ...