Copper particles in the amyloid deposit of an Alzheimer's brain. (Image: Neil Telling and James Everett)
Researchers have discovered tiny deposits of elemental copper...
Rhythmic movements with sound effects: Stone Age hunters and gatherers in today's northwestern Russia once danced to the rattling sound of elk-tooth followers. ...
Depression can become life-threatening. New treatment options are in demand. (Image: cindygoff / iStock)
Hope for previously hopeless cases: a one-hour treatment with...
Chimpanzees like this one could lose large parts of their habitats. (Image: Pascal Gagneux / GMERC)
Whether chimpanzees, bonobos or gorillas: the African great...
Rotifers are tiny multicellular organisms that can also live in soil. (Image: Michael Plewka)
They survived the freezing and then about 24,000 years in...
View of the former location of the basilica. (Image: Emil Aladjem / Israel Antiquities Authority)
The Israeli city of Ashkelon was an important trading...
worthlessness is associated with health costs. (Image: Georgethefourth / iStock)
Unhealthy levitation: A stay in weightlessness weakens, among other things, the resistance of the...
This skull comes from an extinct crocodile that has long puzzled researchers. The reptile, once native to Madagascar, resembled the Nile crocodiles in...
Microfossils provide evidence of an enigmatic mass extinction in sharks. (Illustration: Leah Rubin)
A bang in the history of sharks is emerging: around 19...