Discovered by chance in the attic: a sax and a spearhead from the late 7th century. (Image: University of Innsbruck)
Archaeological treasures do not...
Powerful tiny things, precisely controllable: Nanotechnologists have developed sophisticated micro-floats that can arrange silicate spheres into letters, push cells into position and even climb...
Biologist Tamar Gutnick scratches "George" in the Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna.
(Image: OIST)
They are famous for their slowness and longevity - giant turtles, on the...
Infrared images of butterflies: The bright areas are linked to the ability to cool radiation. (Image: Nanfang Yu and Cheng-Chia Tsai / Columbia Engineering)
Butterfly...
Artist's impression of the technically upgraded jellyfish. (Image: Rebecca Konte / Caltech)
Put in turbo gear: Researchers have equipped jellyfish with a kind of pacemaker...
Astronomers have followed the journey of phosphorus from star formation to comets by combining data from ALMA and the Rosetta probe. (Photo: ALMA (ESO...
The combination of ultra-short laser pulses (red) with a scanning tunneling microscope makes quantum processes visible like an electronic wave packet (colored) with atomic...
Artist's impression of a protostar that accretes and grows gas from a circumstellar disk. (Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech, R. Hurt / SSC)
Massive stars do...
Gas giant or brown dwarf? (Image: dottedhippo / iStock)
Big gas planet or "failed" star? This question is difficult to answer for some massive celestial...
Meteorites betray that the formation of Mars took much more time than expected.
The very young solar system was probably a violent and chaotic place. Objects...
Scientists reconstructed the evolution of beavers with the help of DNA from an extinct giant beaver.
There are currently two beaver species - the European...
It may be a new weapon in the fight against this nasty disease.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. Despite significant improvements in...
Powerful laser pulses etch small patterns onto metal surfaces, so that they absorb a lot of light.
Not long ago, researchers presented an unsinkable piece of...