Contrary to previous claims, the ocean releases less microplastics into the atmosphere than it absorbs from it and is ...

Neutron stars are exotic and extremely compact stellar remnants. Only black holes have a higher mass density. While black holes colliding with each other can only be detected by the emitted ...

In many countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, women are giving birth at an older age than in the past, and this trend is expected to continue. The later in life a woman has a child, the ...

For the more than two billion women worldwide who experience menstrual cycles, these insights could revolutionize clinical ...

Federal President Steinmeier visits Chile's observatories threatened by industrial pollution, emphasizing the need for ...

To become infectious, HIV has to undergo a maturation process, which involves a rearrangement of the matrix proteins (red).

The wealth of urban elites—and, consequently, social inequality—increases with a city's population. A team from the Max ...

The Polybot project is receiving €220,000 to develop an intelligent harvesting robot that promotes sustainable agriculture.

A woman's egg cells are already formed in her body before she is born. However, with increasing age, DNA damage accumulates ...

Swarms begin when flightless juveniles aggregate and start marching in unison. Understanding how these plague insects ...

A weakening of the North Atlantic overturning circulation would cause the ocean to absorb less carbon dioxide - and this is ...