Key phases of human evolution coincide with flickers in eastern Africa’s climate Interdisciplinary research in southern Ethiopia enabled the deciphering of eastern Africa’s climatic heartbeat and shows… Read more
Resolving the evolutionary history of the closest algal relatives of land plants Scientists use genomic data to resolve the phylogeny of zygnematophyte algae and pinpoint several emergences of… Read more
Time’s arrow Brief exposure to rapamycin has the same anti-ageing effects as lifelong treatment Read more
Molecular Switch Controls Life Expectancy: A Single Protein Controls Aging Signals More Effectively Than In A Team Scientists have found that the protein CHIP can control life-prolonging signals in the cell better alone than in pairs /… Read more
One Sip of Alcohol is Enough to Modify the Brain Even a single dose of drinking alcohol – ethanol – can permanently alter synapses and mitochondrial movement in the… Read more
The 6th sense: How the stick insect instinctively knows what its legs should do New insights into the regulation of intuitive and reflexive body perception in insects/ Publication in Current Biology Read more
Supermassive Blackhole influences Star Formation Powerful jets of a supermassive black hole change the conditions for star formation in interstellar clouds / European… Read more
Molecules boosting plant immunity identified Researchers identify two classes of molecules that control immune responses in plants / Publication in Science Read more
8000 kilometres per second: star with the shortest orbital period around black hole discovered A newly discovered star only takes four years to travel around the black hole at the centre of our galaxy / publication… Read more
A sanitizer in the galactic centre region Research mission to understand how organic molecules form in the interstellar medium has detected iso-propanol in… Read more