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- Electronic Music With A Human Rhythm https://www.mpg.de/21479985/0130-mpin-electronic-music-with-a-human-rhythm-1160219-x 2 comments
- Covid-19 influences life expectancy https://www.mpg.de/17634809/0929-defo-period-life-expectancy-drops-significantly-due-to-pandemic-154642-x 9 comments
- Coherent Nuclear Excitations https://www.mpg.de/16449701/coherent-nuclear-excitations 12 comments
- Researchers found a distinct correlation between pupillary response and depression severity: the weaker the pupillary response is, the more depressive symptoms participants had https://www.mpg.de/21377187/0112-pskl-ein-blicke-in-die-depression-153150-x?c=2249 44 comments science
- The menstrual rhythm of the brain. Research shows in the female brain, regions important for memory and perception are remodeled in the course of the menstrual cycle https://www.mpg.de/20964081/1013-nepf-the-menstrual-rhythm-of-the-brain-149575-x?c=2249 83 comments science
- Scientists discovered that a change in the brain's neural pathways while dieting facilitates rebound weight gain, this discovery could be a target for drugs to combat the yo-yo effect https://www.mpg.de/20048019/0322-neur-dieting-brain-amplifies-signal-of-hunger-synapses-153735-x 7 comments science
- Researchers have discovered heritable underpinnings of brain asymmetry that is partly influenced by genetic factors but some asymmetry is influenced, at least in part, by the person’s experience https://www.mpg.de/19224941/0915-nepf-the-hemispheres-are-not-equal-how-the-brain-is-not-symmetrical-149575-x 5 comments science
- Organic compounds on Ceres: Researchers also find salt deposits in an impact crater on the dwarf planet https://www.mpg.de/18331057/0222-aero-dwarf-planet-ceres-organic-chemistry-and-salt-deposits-in-urvara-impact-crater-151060-x 2 comments space
- A COVID-19 risk variant inherited from Neandertals reduces a person’s risk of contracting HIV by 27 percent https://www.mpg.de/18289931/0217-evan-covid-19-genetic-risk-variant-protects-against-hiv-150495-x 12 comments science
- Biomarker predicts severity of Covid-19 infection early on https://www.mpg.de/17722615/1021-pfor-biomarker-predicts-severity-of-covid-19-infection-early-on-149770-x 5 comments science
- Gut to brain: nerve cells detect what we eat. Nerve cells of the vagus nerve fulfil opposing tasks. https://www.mpg.de/16984008/0602-neur-gut-to-brain-nerve-cells-detect-what-we-eat 3 comments science
- Largest study of its kind reveals the way relative brain size of mammals changed over the last 150 million years. The findings showed that brain size relative to body size—long considered an indicator of animal intelligence—has not followed a stable scale over evolutionary time. https://www.mpg.de/16785076/disaster-brain-size?c=2249 9 comments science
- A newly developed compound starves cancer cells by attacking their "power plants". The compound prevents the genetic information within mitochondria from being read. Researchers report that this compound could be used as a potential anti-tumor drug in the future in both mice and humans https://www.mpg.de/16173482/1214-balt-starved-new-drug-inhibits-the-growth-of-cancer-cells-155436-x 80 comments science
- Happiness and the evolution of brain size: Serotonin can act as a growth factor for the stem cells in the fetal human brain that determine brain size https://www.mpg.de/15910593/happiness-and-the-evolution-of-brain-size 4 comments science
- From fluffy to valuable: How the brain recognises objects https://www.mpg.de/15916063/1016-nepf-113272-from-fluffy-to-valuable-how-the-brain-recognises-objects 6 comments cogsci
- Y chromosomes of Neanderthals and Denisovans now sequenced: Neanderthals have adopted male sex chromosome from modern humans https://www.mpg.de/15426102/neandertal-y-chromosome 5 comments science
- Women with Neandertal gene give birth to more children.One in three women in Europe inherited the receptor for progesterone from Neandertals – a gene variant associated with increased fertility, fewer bleedings during early pregnancy and fewer miscarriages. https://www.mpg.de/14877152/0526-evan-019609-women-with-neandertal-gene-give-birth-to-more-children?c=2249 11 comments europe
- Scientists have used a climate game to investigate how extreme climate events combined with poverty affect the migration of people to rich countries if the participants are also expected to finance measures against climate change. https://www.mpg.de/14864842/climate-change-migration 7 comments science
- Bipolar structure for nerve cell migration https://www.mpg.de/12453737/neuronal-migration-polarization 4 comments science
- The concentration of a chemical in the air that is released by people when stressed is an objective indicator for setting the age rating of films, finds a new study. The more nervous moviegoers are, the more isoprene they emit - a measurable indication of how stressful a film is. https://www.mpg.de/12363501/a-chemical-criterion-for-rating-movies 902 comments science
- A new study shows how reading shapes our brain. Those unable or barely able to read not only find analyzing sequences of letters more difficult - they have similar difficulty processing sequences of images. Furthermore, the illiterate find it harder to distinguish how an object is oriented in space https://www.mpg.de/12014669/culture-shapes-the-brain 92 comments science
- Researchers measure the inner structure of a star for the first time—and the results disagree with theory https://www.mpg.de/11872053/internal-stellar-structure-asteroseismology 4 comments science
- Homo sapiens origin pushed back by 100,000 years. https://www.mpg.de/11322481/oldest-homo-sapiens-fossils-at-jebel-irhoud-morocco 4 comments science
- Science is International https://www.mpg.de/11034171/stellungnahme-wissenschaftsorganisationen_praesidialdekret-einreise-englisch_01.pdf 4 comments politics
- For each metric tonne of CO2 that any person on our planet emits, three square meters of Arctic summer sea ice disappear, say Max Planck Institute researchers as they show that Arctic sea ice melt is directly proportional to individual CO2 production. https://www.mpg.de/10817029/my-contribution-to-arctic-sea-ice-melt 3 comments science
- High-fat diet starves the brain https://www.mpg.de/10478525/fat-brain-sugar?filter_order=l&research_topic= 7 comments science
- A new model shows why we can actually hear directly with our skulls http://www.mpg.de/8281139/hearing_bones 4 comments science
- A group of nomadic hunter-gatherers in Thailand have multiple words for smells http://www.mpg.de/8175600/olfactory-language-maniq 6 comments linguistics
- How video gaming can be beneficial for the brain: Brain regions can be specifically trained "Video gaming causes increases in the brain regions responsible for spatial orientation, memory formation and strategic planning as well as fine motor skills." http://www.mpg.de/7588840/video-games-brain 31 comments science
- Is wood the next new biofuel? http://www.mpg.de/7542580/wood-lignin-arene 7 comments science
- A recent study suggests that Neandertals shared speech and language with modern humans http://www.mpg.de/7448453/neandertals-language 6 comments science
- Zebrafish larvae play video games at Max Planck Institute. http://www.mpg.de/7259556/hunting-behaviour-zebrafish-larvae 3 comments science
- Many genes are completely new inventions and not just modified copies of old genes http://www.mpg.de/7056536/genes-templates?filter_order=l 19 comments science
- A temperature below absolute zero. Atoms at negative absolute temperature are the hottest systems in the world. http://www.mpg.de/6776082/negative_absolute_temperature 11 comments science
- Rapid coral death by a deadly chain reaction, oxygen depletion, together with an acidification of the environment, creates a chain reaction that leads to coral death. http://www.mpg.de/5810970/coral_death_chain_reaction 14 comments science
- Do chimpanzees mourn their dead infants? - For the first time, researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands report in detail how a chimpanzee mother responds to the death of her infant. http://www.mpg.de/1071360/mourning_chimpanzee?filter_order=l 9 comments science
- When it infects the lungs, the Legionnaire’s bacterium Legionella p. causes acute pneumonia. The pathogen’s modus operandi is particularly ingenious: it infiltrates into cells of the human immune system and injects a host of proteins which then interfere in the normal cellular processes. http://www.mpg.de/english/illustrationsdocumentation/documentation/pressreleases/2010/pressrelease20100723/index.html 3 comments science
- The brain of the fly - a high-speed computer - Neurobiologists use state-of-the-art methods to decode the basics of motion detection http://www.mpg.de/english/illustrationsdocumentation/documentation/pressreleases/2010/pressrelease20100708/index.html 15 comments science
- Death of a star in three dimensions - Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching have for the first time managed to reproduce the asymmetries and fast-moving iron clumps of observed supernovae by complex computer simulations. http://www.mpg.de/english/illustrationsdocumentation/documentation/pressreleases/2010/pressrelease201005111/index.html 4 comments science
- Scientists find a new insight into Lupus pathogenesis - Scientists succeeded in elucidating basic principles of the disease. This opens up new perspectives for methods that might enable early diagnosis and treatment of Lupus patients with a high risk at kidney failure. http://www.mpg.de/english/illustrationsdocumentation/documentation/pressreleases/2010/pressrelease201004302/index.html 6 comments science