The evolution of life may have its origins in outer space Astronomers find signs of complex organic molecules – precursors to sugars and amino acids – in a planet-forming disc ...

The human diet during the Magdalenian phase of Europe’s Upper Palaeolithic between 18,000 and 12,000 years ago is poorly known. This is particularly a problem regarding food resources that leave ...

An international team of researchers led by groups from the Max Planck Institute in Marburg and the Philipps University in Marburg has stumbled upon the first regular molecular fractal in nature. They ...

A growing number of research organizations want to establish an international initiative which aims to convert the majority of today’s scholarly journals from subscription to Open Access (OA) ...

Ice age survivors Large-scale genomic analysis documents the migrations of Ice Age hunter-gatherers over a period of 30,000 years ...

The central biocatalyst in photosynthesis, Rubisco, is the most abundant enzyme on earth. By reconstructing billion-year-old enzymes, a team of Max Planck Researchers has deciphered one of the key ...

Does the exoplanet Trappist-1 b have an atmosphere after all? New observations with the James Webb Space Telescope no longer rule out the presence of an atmosphere around the Earth-sized rocky planet.

To the point Secret of the Phoenician-Punic civilization's success: Their culture spread across the Mediterranean not through large-scale mass migration, but through a dynamic process of cultural ...

New findings from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal the origins of the ultrahot exoplanet WASP-121b, including atmospheric methane and silicon.

Computational image analysis of behaving cuttlefish reveals principles of control and development of a biological invisibility cloak.

The analysis of ancient DNA preserved in sediments is an emerging technology allowing for the detection of the past presence of humans and other animals at archaeological sites. Yet, little is known ...

Researchers from the University of Florence, Harvard University and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have used ancient DNA to challenge long-held interpretations of ...