These schematic images show the geometry of the β Pictoris system: The image on the left shows both the star and the two planets embedded…
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Matthias Meyer at work in the clean laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Credit: MPI f. Evolutionary Anthropology Neanderthals have adopted male…
A chimpanzee mother’s presence and support throughout the prolonged childhood years allow their offspring time to learn the skills they need to survive in adulthood.…
The physical structures of cancer cells are disrupted by a web forming inside of the cells – which activates their self-destruction mechanism. Credit: MPI-P According…
New archaeological research in Saudi Arabia documents hundreds of stone structures interpreted as monumental sites where early pastoralists carried out rituals. Image shows character of…
Greater mouse-eared bat (Myotis myotis). Credit: Olivier Farcy First six reference-quality bat genomes released and analyzed. For the first time, the raw genetic material that…
Researchers have demonstrated a novel light-matter interface, realizing the lightest possible mirror formed by a monolayer of 200 atoms. Credit: Max Planck Institute Physicists succeed…
The MAGIC telescope system at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. Credit: Giovanni Ceribella/MAGIC Collaboration In 2019, the MAGIC telescopes…
Ionized gas inside the Sun moves toward the poles near the surface and toward the equator at the base of the convection zone (at a…
Movebank data worldmap. Credit: MPIAB/ MaxCine An international team of scientists is investigating how animals are responding to reduced levels of human activity during the…
Visualization of the coalescence of two black holes that inspiral and merge, emitting gravitational waves. One black hole is 9.2 times more massive than the…
A cloud of trapped iron ions interacting with intense X-rays from a synchrotron light source. Credit: © S. Bernitt, Helmholtz Institute Jena) Two prominent X-ray…
The star Kepler-160 and its companion KOI-456.04 are more reminiscent of the Sun-Earth system than any previously known exoplanet-star pair. Among the more than 4,000…
According to a study, the number of undetected cases of infected persons differs significantly in different countries. The demographic scaling model developed by researchers at…
Sandwich with electronic spice: The illustration shows a crystalline monoatomic gold layer under graphene (anthracite). The electronic structure of the gold layer and the graphene…
Stone artifacts from the Initial Upper Paleolithic at Bacho Kiro Cave: 1-3, 5-7 Pointed blades and fragments from Layer I; 4 Sandstone bead with morphology…
These are brightness variations of the Sun in comparison with the star KIC 7849521. Credit: MPS / hormesdesign.de An analysis of 369 solar-like stars shows…
Artist impression of a double-star system. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Humans have been studying the light from stars since the beginning of our history; however, we’ve…
A neutron star is the densest object astronomers can observe directly, crushing half a million times Earth’s mass into a sphere about 22 kilometers across,…
Schematic image of permanent magnet stellarator with plasma in yellow. Red and blue indicate permanent magnets with simplified coils surrounding the vessel. Credit: Coaxing Zhu…