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…
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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…
A look into the interior of the Sun and a more evolved giant star. Credit: MPS / Aalto University / hormesdesign.de By combining modern data…
Stone tools found at the Dhaba site corresponding with the Toba volcanic super-eruption levels. Pictured here are diagnostic Middle Palaeolithic core types. Credit: Chris Clarkson…
The shared brain asymmetry pattern is visualized on a human endocast (cast of the internal bony braincase) in lateral view (left) and from the lower…
Resolution taken to the extreme: Using a combination of ultrashort laser pulses (red) and a scanning tunneling microscope, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for…
One of the wolves, named Aino, waiting in the test apparatus. Contrary to expectations, dogs and wolves performed equally well on the cooperation task. Credit:…
The physical process driving Gamma-Ray Bursts might be synchrotron radiation after all. A new analysis of Fermi/GBM archival data of gamma-ray bursts (GRB), the most…
Dogs use facial expressions and body language to communicate with conspecifics and humans. Credit: Sylvio Tüpke The first comprehensive study of the human ability to…
A string of modern ostrich eggshell beads from eastern Africa. Credit: Hans Sell New archeological analysis challenges long-standing hypotheses about ostrich eggshell beads and the…
First direct analysis of pathogenic sequence repeats in the human genome. Expansions of DNA repeats are very hard to analyze. A method developed by researchers…