New study shows that a genetic variant inherited from Neandertals impairs the function of a key enzyme involved in muscle ...

An FAQ to anwer the most important questions about how to create a special tribunal for the Ukraine, the possible impacts on ...

Ancient pathogen genomes from old bones: a team of scientists from Germany and Argentina have reconstructed two genomes of ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development have critically examined the basis for a frequently cited ...

A group of chacma baboons in the middle of a grooming session. On the left, the larger male has his fur cleaned by a smaller ...

Changing family structures: In Thailand, rapid demographic change has meant that people born just five to ten years later ...

Nobel Prize-winning physicists Ferenc Krausz (2023) and Serge Haroche (2012) returned from an emotional and impactful visit ...

In the U.S., the monthly payments increase the longer one works—researchers have now examined whether delaying retirement is ...

Since the beginning of the Russian offensive against Ukraine, the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) has ...

These short-term changes in serotonin transporter provide the evidence for a cycle-phase specific therapy of PMDD symptoms. Patients can take selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) ...

In brief: High hit rate: Hybrid diagnostic collectives consisting of humans and AI make significantly more accurate diagnoses than either medical professionals or AI systems alone—because they make ...

To the point: Particularly severe climate impacts: the latest climate report from the European earth observation service Copernicus shows that Europe is especially vulnerable to extreme events such as ...