Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of Kiel have provided experimental evidence ...

A behavioral experiment shows that a completely uncooperative behavioral strategy undermines climate protection efforts even ...

Scientists at the X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL have realized a long-pursued experimental goal in physics: to show how ...

Odor signals in plant communities are mediated by biodiversityPlants communicate with other organisms by releasing volatile organic compounds into ...

Plants do not stay silent. New research shows how plant diversity changes smell based communication across ecosystems.

Why do some people doubt themselves more over time while others gain confidence? There are two brain mechanisms behind ...

For decades, anthropologists lumped these ancient populations into a single species, Homo heidelbergensis, long believed to ...

PROF. J. R. PARTINGTON writes : I knew Planck as professor of theoretical physics in the University of Berlin. His course was spread over more than one year, and I began with the last and most ...

One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists to understand for the first time how and why certain materials conduct ...

The Standard Model of our universe doesn’t match the evidence, in part because of dark energy, a ghostly force pushing the ...