A study of a team lead by researchers of the Max Planck Institute für Mathematics in the Sciences shows a strikingly clear structural division of the German Twittersphere into two ideological camps — ...

Quantum-resistant encryption schemes are currently not readily available for mass implementation in special-purpose hardware ...

Previously unknown navigation mechanism: pigeons may sense the Earth’s magnetic field using iron-rich immune cells in their livers, a quantum effect. Navigation ex ...

Researchers have discovered that the fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) is biofluorescent. A new study reveals that this ...

Upwelling of phosphorus-rich deep water promotes an N-fixing symbiont of the Sargassum algae giving it a competitive advantage. Each year, vast mats of Sargassum spread across the tropical Atlantic, ...

DNA analysis from two naturally mummified individuals from Libya: More than 7,000 years ago, during the so-called African Humid Period (Green Sahara), a long isolated human lineage existed in North ...

Meshcapade is a spin-off of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen and develops solutions for the creation and animation of digital humans. The start-up was founded in 2018 and ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the first alphabet (from which many present-day writing systems derive). By the ...

Suppose a federal state deliberately ignores the law and court rulings. How can such “executive disobedience” be stopped?

The geochemical data indicate suggest that plant foods were consistently a substantial part of human diets, but became ...

Merging neutron stars are excellent targets for multi-messenger astronomy. This modern and still very young method of astrophysics coordinates observations of the various signals from one and the same ...

Teeth are an excellent example of a natural composite material consisting of optimally arranged, simple inorganic and organic components. Dental enamel is the most mineralised and hardest tissue in ...