According to the WHO, over 64 million adults and 300,000 children and adolescents in Europe are currently living with ...

Music can be uplifting and put you in a good mood, but it can also make you melancholy and sad. But how do these emotions ...

We encounter oaths in various ways in our society: in court in the form of sworn testimony, in medicine (the Hippocratic oath ...

In today's digital age, misinformation spreads rapidly, often with harmful consequences for society. The rise of false and ...

The Max Planck Society leads internationally, securing 12 ERC Synergy Grants with a 39% success rate, involving 15 ...

When hybrid seeds fail to develop, the reason often lies in the endosperm—a tissue in plant seeds that provides nutrients to the growing embryo, much like the placenta nourishes mammalian embryos.

Genetic analysis challenges traditional narratives about Pompeii's past and reveals Pompeians‘ cosmopolitan ancestry ...

Tasks will involve analysis and interpretation of high throughput sequencing data including RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, and DNA-seq. Both Illumina short-read and long-read platforms are in use, as are single ...

Although enzymes are usually known for their specificity, many have the ability to act on multiple substrates, a property that may play a key role in the evolution of enzymes. However, these ...

Research shows strong correlation between higher levels of female education and lower fertility rates in sub-Saharan Africa. How does education affect women's desire to have children? In a new study, ...

"Together with the simultaneous recording of responses from peripheral nerves, the brainstem and the cortex, our multi-channel spinal cord electrophysiology method provides the missing building block ...

In mammals, birds and some reptiles, sleep can be divided into two primary states: slow-wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movement sleep (REMS). SWS is characterized by slow brain waves and occurs first ...