Pages

▼
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Rat lungworm transmitted by many more species than slugs, snails

›
Flatworm in Hawaiʻi can act as a paratenic host of rat lungworm. Photo credit: Shinji Sugiura CC4 While many people know that rat lungworm d...

Sensor-based early detection of age-related diseases from home

›
Exemplary apartment, highlighting the sensor system used in the study. Individual rooms are equipped with motion sensors, entrance and fridg...

Treat hepatitis E virus better after transplantation

›
The joint partners of the HepEDiaSeq project (from left): André Gömer (RUB); Prof. Dr. Heiner Wedemeyer (MHH); Dr. Patrick Behrendt (MHH); D...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

An extrasolar world covered in water?

›
Artistic rendition of the exoplanet TOI-1452 b, a small planet that may be entirely covered in a deep ocean. Credit: Benoit Gougeon, Univers...

Researchers reveal origin of ultrafast mystery signals in valleytronic materials

›
 By exciting the transitional metal dichalcogenide monolayers — atomically thin semiconductors — with ultrashort pump pulses, atoms can cohe...

30-million-year-old amphibious beaver fossil is oldest ever found

›
A comparison of anklebones from the giant beaver and the newly identified species, Microtheriomys articulaquaticus, at the same scale. Credi...

Study of Ancient Skulls Sheds Light on Human Interbreeding With Neandertals

›
Homo neanderthalensis adult male. Reconstruction based on Shanidar 1 by John Gurche for the Human Origins Program, NMNH. Photo Credit: Chip ...

Scientists Calculate What Could Throw El Niño Out of Balance

›
Abnormal temperature spikes can also lead to unpredictable results during the El Niño period, Dmitry Aleksandrov believes. Photo credit: Ily...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Sleepless and selfish: Lack of sleep makes us less generous

›
The new study shows how sleep loss dramatically reduces the desire to help others, triggered by a breakdown in the activity of key prosocial...

Study finds that ocean cooling over millennia led to larger fish

›
Dahiana Arcila in Reykjavík, Iceland. Arcila is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award to study the evolutionary histor...