The cell – equipped with computer-designed DNA – should provide more insight into the basic processes that underlie life.
Five years ago, scientists created a...
Their wings, on the other hand, have lengthened over time.
Even the most pristine parts of the vast Amazon rainforest cannot escape it: climate change....
Millions of years before hermit crabs developed their famous trick, penile worms used it successfully.
British and Chinese researchers come to this surprising conclusion after...
Artist's impression of a Cambrian priaps worm in the annexed shell of a prehistoric marine animal. (Image: Prof Zhang Xiguang, Yunnan University)
The beach...
It is plant-based, sustainable, scalable and incredibly strong. And thus a promising solution to the comprehensive plastic problem.
Pollution from single-use plastics is one...
The so-called Neptune grass forms underwater meadows on some Mediterranean coasts. (Image: Hydra Marine Sciences GmbH)
Fertilized by tiny things in the roots: The...
A thorough search for the sterile neutrino has turned up nothing.
The Standard Model of particle physics is very clear about neutrinos: the subatomic, elementary...
The faeces of hungry caterpillars have been shown to act as fertilizer for aquatic microbes, which in turn release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Major...