What is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers ...

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 ...

Searching for clues and leads is still something investigators have to do themselves. But if they find creepy-crawlies at the crime scene, these creatures can be of great help. First come the ...

The discovery of the phantom touch illusion provides insights into human perception and opens up new perspectives for interaction with virtual reality technology. Virtual reality (VR) is not only a ...

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 ...

Researchers hope to use plasmas to make the production of hydrogen and steel more environmentally friendly. The key to this is a tornado that they generate in a lab. There is a storm brewing in the ...

A learning experiment with participants of different ages produced surprising results. The ability to make the connection between an event and its consequences – experts use the term associative ...

Researchers in Bochum have discovered a control mechanism that may also operate beyond plants. How lipids in the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum of plant cells interact with proteins to organize ...

The project team aims to lay the foundation for future scalable photonic quantum technologies. Scalable quantum information technology that processes information according to the laws of quantum ...

New results from physicists in Bochum have challenged the Standard Model of Cosmology. “Since time immemorial people have been looking at the sky and trying to understand how much stars, planets, ...

So far, geodesign has remained a niche in real-world planning practices. Yet it could make things so much easier. In urban planning, competing interests – such as creating more space for housing while ...

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