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Life Sciences - 15:10
Theoretical biologists uncover novel mechanism for flight control in fruit flies
Theoretical biologists uncover novel mechanism for flight control in fruit flies
Researchers at the Institute for Theoretical Biology at Humboldt Universität have solved a long-standing mathematical puzzle about the emergence of electrical activity patterns during insect flight. Together with colleagues at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, they report a novel function for electrical synapses in governing the flight of fruit flies in the current issue of Nature.

Life Sciences - 14:12
Light conveyed by the signal transmitting molecule sucrose controls growth of plant roots
Light conveyed by the signal transmitting molecule sucrose controls growth of plant roots
Team of Freiburg researchers shows how information about the quantity of absorbed light passes from the leaves to the roots Plant growth is driven by light and supplied with energy through photosynthesis by green leaves. It is the same for roots that grow in the dark - they receive the products of photosynthesis, in particular sucrose, i.e. sugar, via the central transportation pathways of phloem.

Physics - Materials Science - 29.05.2023
Let information flow faster - with light instead of electricity
Let information flow faster - with light instead of electricity
Either 1 or 0. Either current flows or it does not. In electronics, everything is controlled via the binary system. Electrons already generate information quite fast and well, pass them on and take over various switching functions. But it can be done even faster. Paul Herrmann and Sebastian Klimmer from the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena have proven that.

Life Sciences - Health - 28.05.2023
When the cell digests itself
When the cell digests itself
Our cells are crisscrossed by a system of membrane tubes and pockets called the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). It is crucial for the production of biomolecules and is continuously built up and degraded. Degradation, known as ER-phagy, is promoted by the protein ubiquitin, which controls many processes in the cell.

Health - Life Sciences - 26.05.2023
Rapeseed and the enemy in the soil
Rapeseed and the enemy in the soil
Research group led by Göttingen University identifies importance of bacteria for germination of disease-causing fungus Crops have a high nutritional value, which makes them essential to people. However, this also makes them attractive to harmful microorganisms, such as bacteria or fungi. In fact, most pathogens can only attack specific plants and there has been extensive research to try to discover how fungi locate their host plants.

Physics - Chemistry - 26.05.2023
Emergence of solvated dielectrons observed for the first time
Team in conjunction with the University of Freiburg generates low-energy electrons using ultraviolet light Solvated dielectrons are the subject of many hypotheses among scientists, but have never been directly observed. They are described as a pair of electrons that is dissolved in liquids such as water or liquid ammonia.

History / Archeology - 26.05.2023
Unique archaeological find in Thorikos
Unique archaeological find in Thorikos
Archaeologists from the University of Göttingen have discovered the earliest Iron Age house in Athens in Thorikos (Greece), south of Athens. This is an important, unexpected and unique finding for early Greek history: building structures from this early period, from the 10th to the 9th century BC, have never been excavated anywhere in Attica before.

Health - 25.05.2023
Oops, did I do that - or is there someone else in my head?
Oops, did I do that - or is there someone else in my head?
The feeling that your own actions are controlled by external forces is a common feature in schizophrenia. A research team at the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, the University of Tübingen and the Center for Mental Health at the Tübingen University Hospitals has now examined this phenomenon of -delusions of control- in more detail.

Environment - Life Sciences - 25.05.2023
Tree islands bring biodiversity to oil palm plantations
Tree islands bring biodiversity to oil palm plantations
Göttingen University CRC publishes results of long-running experiment Islands of trees in oil palm plantations can significantly increase biodiversity within five years without reducing productivity. This has been shown by an experiment, which has been running for over ten years in Indonesia as part of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) "EFForTS" at the University of Göttingen.

Pharmacology - Health - 25.05.2023
Schizophrenia drug as new therapy against dementia
Schizophrenia drug as new therapy against dementia
A clinical trial will investigate the drug's efficacy in dementia patients. A common feature of many neurodegenerative diseases are pathological protein deposits in the brain. These protein aggregates cause nerve cells to die and, as a result, entire brain areas to shrink, which manifests itself in affected individuals as progressive dementia.

Health - Life Sciences - 24.05.2023
Chemists develop new approach in cancer research
Chemists develop new approach in cancer research
Intervention in RNA switches off "cancer genes" / American-German team publishes study in "Nature" If the regulation of cell growth and division gets out of control, cancer is a possible consequence. The gene "MYC", for example, plays an important role in controlling cell growth in humans. If it no longer functions properly, cells grow uncontrollably.

History / Archeology - 24.05.2023
The elusive minority: non-binary gender in prehistoric Europe
The elusive minority: non-binary gender in prehistoric Europe
Research team at Göttingen University analyse data from burial sites spanning nearly 4,000 years People tend to think that the idea that biological sex is linked with one-s role in society belongs in the past. But was it even the case in prehistory? Archaeologists at the University of Göttingen have investigated the representation of gender in Neolithic and Bronze Age graves (around 5500 BC to 1200 BC), in order to understand if the idea of gender in prehistoric Europe was really as -binary- as might be expected.

Astronomy / Space Science - 24.05.2023
Experts confirm meteorite find in Elmshorn
Experts confirm meteorite find in Elmshorn
Sky rock testifies to intense collisions in early solar system A suspected meteorite find at the end of April in Elmshorn in Schleswig-Holstein has now been confirmed: Scientists from Münster and Dresden have analyzed the find and determined that the rock is a so-called common type H chondrite. This is a group of meteorites that have a particularly high proportion of metal.

Health - Life Sciences - 24.05.2023
Nature-inspired compounds chop up cancer gene's RNA
Nature-inspired compounds chop up cancer gene’s RNA
Resarchers have found new possibilities for targeting cancer genes' RNA with nature-inspired compounds The cancer gene MYC drives unrestrained growth of most human cancers. It has been called the "Mount Everest" of cancer research because of the difficulty of designing medications that can disable it, and the expectation that an effective MYC drug could help so many cancer patients.

Astronomy / Space Science - Physics - 23.05.2023
Explosion in the Night Sky - First Brightness Measurements of Supernova SN2023ixf
Explosion in the Night Sky - First Brightness Measurements of Supernova SN2023ixf
Astronomers at the University of Potsdam have succeeded in making one of the world's first brightness measurements of the supernova SN2023ixf in the constellation Ursa Major, which was discovered only on Friday evening. It is the brightest detected outburst in more than ten years in the galaxy Messier 101.

Life Sciences - 23.05.2023
New mechanism for sodium salt detoxification in plants
New mechanism for sodium salt detoxification in plants
Newly discovered signalling pathway specifically protects the stem cells in the plant root from salt stress A high content of sodium-containing salts in the soil is a problem for many plants: as a result, they grow less well, or not at all. Soil salinisation is seen as one of the greatest threats to being able to feed the world's population because it makes soils increasingly infertile, especially in dry regions.

Life Sciences - Health - 23.05.2023
A look into the heart of cellular waste disposal
A look into the heart of cellular waste disposal
Researchers make visible how a nanomachine takes care of cleaning up in the cell To keep our body's cells from overflowing with waste and to keep them healthy, the waste inside them is constantly being disposed of. This cleaning process is called autophagy. Scientists have now, for the first time, recreated in the laboratory the complex nanomachine that starts this process and found that it works quite differently from other cellular machines.

Physics - Materials Science - 22.05.2023
ToCoTronics Extended
ToCoTronics Extended
The Collaborative Research Centre ToCoTronics in condensed matter physics will be extended for four more years. The German Research Foundation is funding it with 12 million euros. Topological materials are intensively investigated in the world. This boom started at Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg, where the physics professor Laurens Molenkamp realized the first topological insulator in 2007.

Pharmacology - 22.05.2023
New measurement equipment at the University: Studying receptor proteins using EPR spectroscopy
New measurement equipment at the University: Studying receptor proteins using EPR spectroscopy
News from Studying proteins with novel methods is Dr Matthias Elgeti's speciality. An EPR spectrometer is helping him to study the structure and dynamics of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). His work is concerned with the side effects of drugs and the regulation of bodily functions such as hunger.

Life Sciences - 22.05.2023
How Plants Use Sugar to Produce Roots
How Plants Use Sugar to Produce Roots
Along with sugar reallocation, a basic molecular mechanism within plants controls the formation of new lateral roots. An international team of plant biologists has demonstrated that it is based on the activity of a certain factor, the target of rapamycin (TOR) protein. A better understanding of the processes that regulate root branching at the molecular level could contribute to improving plant growth and therefore crop yields, according to research team leader Alexis Maizel of the Centre for Organismal Studies at Heidelberg University.
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