Oxygen can destroy hydrogen-producing enzymes. Researchers from Bochum and Osaka have discovered how an extraordinary protein survives in the presence of oxygen.

For animals, sleeping on their left side is not about comfort. It is a survival strategy. Cats prefer to sleep on their left side. This is the conclusion drawn by an international research team that ...

A misfolded protein facilitates reliable diagnosis even in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease in body fluids. Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that is usually diagnosed in its ...

Unlike hitherto assumed, the cause is not to be found in the brain. It is not the brain that determines if people are right or left-handed, but the spinal cord. This has been inferred from the ...

People who reduce their screen time on by merely one hour a day improve both their well-being and their motivation at work. On average, we spend three and a quarter hours a day looking at our phones.

A hug can have a beneficial effect. Even when it comes from a robot. Touch can do a lot of good – so far, so good. But to what extent do humans benefit from it? How much touch is allowed? Who should ...

Rocks undergo changes over millions of years. Yet it is possible to extract information from them about the climate at the time of their formation. Fluids circulating underground change rocks over the ...

We all know what it’s like when the penny suddenly drops. Animals too experience such moments of insight. They could prove useful for research, according to Ekrem Dere. For generations, researchers ...

A new method reconstructs carbon dioxide levels and photosynthesis from fossilized tooth enamel. A previously untapped source of data sheds new light on the climate of the early Earth: fossilized ...

Drones shouldn’t be able to fly over airports and should have a unique serial number. In theory. Researchers from Bochum and Saarbrücken have detected security vulnerabilities, some of them serious, ...

Clara Saraceno will use an ERC Consolidator Grant to develop new methods for adjusting air plasma composition using ultrafast lasers. This revolutionizes light generation, but also other areas.

Newly detected [FeFe]-hydrogenase from a thermophilic bacterium is not degraded by oxygen. In the absence of air, microorganisms produce hydrogen using an enzyme called [FeFe]-hydrogenase, one of the ...