The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research in Berlin-Buch (KWIH) and the German Research Institute for Psychiatry (Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie, DFA) in Munich acquired thousands of ...

Indonesia is battling one of its most severe wildfire seasons in over a decade, as intense El Niño conditions fuel widespread drought. Some of the most severely affected areas are on the island of ...

In humans, hunting is considered a man’s endeavor. But in one of our closest living relatives, hunting is primarily women’s business. A 10-year study of wild bonobos reveals that hunting is ...

Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850-1891) was the world’s first female professor of mathematics. She taught at Stockholm University, where she was awarded a Professorial Chair. Born in Russia, she entered into a ...

Over a six-month period, Xuehu Wei and the research team led by Alfred Anwander and Angela Friederici, meticulously compared the brain scans of 59 native Arabic speakers engaged in intensive German ...

The interactive world map that is accessible via the internet, details the histories of genetic mixing between each of the 95 populations across Europe, Africa, Asia and South America. It shows likely ...

“Today, if you compare Ashkenazi Jews from the United States and Israel, they’re very similar genetically, almost like the same population regardless of where they live,” says geneticist Shai Carmi of ...

Have you ever experienced such a swarm yourself? Years ago, I studied the swarming behaviour of migratory locusts in Africa. I also came across swarms of migratory young animals. These do not fly, but ...

When people converse in their day-to-day lives, they often speak about what they hear, smell, taste or feel. First and foremost, however, they talk about their visual perceptions. This is the ...

A single dose of one of the world’s most widely-prescribed drugs for the treatment of depression causes quantifiable changes in the entire brain in a matter of a few hours. Scientists at the Max ...

They are considered next-generation batteries: solid-state batteries promise higher storage capacity, even greater safety, and, in theory, a longer service life. This could help electric vehicles ...

Because of its delicate, yet extremely variable, patterning, the lady beetle species Harmonia axyridis is sometimes called Harlequin ladybird. However, this insect has no comical characteristics. At ...