For animals, sleeping on their left side is not about comfort. It is a survival strategy.

Linguistic symptoms and an onset early in life: Disorders to which this applies are frequently associated with left-handedness resp. mixed-handedness. The fact that left-handedness resp.

Hallmark of Parkinson’s disease are Lewy bodies in the brain consisting of misfolded alpha-synuclein proteins. These misfolded proteins can be measured by the iRS (immuno infrared sensor) technology ...

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 ...

In a hybrid cascade, climate-damaging CO 2 is turned back into valuable methanol. An international research team has shown how this works. In order to recover valuable substances from CO 2, it must be ...

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 ...

Micro-organisms generate all sorts of materials that could serve as potential agents for combating bacteria and fungi. An international research team has identified and optimized enzymes that can ...

How people function under stress. The Bochum-based researcher is primarily interested in the immediate stress responses. She studies in what way stress affects our cognitive emotion regulation in the ...

The brain is constantly storing new experiences that it has to integrate into the jumble of existing memories. Surprisingly, it does not overwrite previous memory traces in the process. The first day ...

In scenarios where two mirror-image molecules are possible, special catalysts are required to produce only the desired one. A research team from the Ruhr Explores Solvation RESOLV Cluster of ...

When exposed to high temperatures and pressure, water enters a state in which liquid and gas can no longer be distinguished. For a long time, there has been controversy about how this looks like on a ...

The work was funded by the German Research Foundation as part of Research Group 2982 (funding number 413163866) and as part of the Ruhr Explores Solvation Cluster of Excellence (EXC ...