It needs more than willpower and dedication for dieting to have the desired results. A much more subtle aspect of the diets themselves — their perceived complexity — can also influence how pounds are shed, says a new research.
Cognitive scientists from Indiana University (IU) and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin compared [...]
The magnetic field at the core of the Milky Way is at least 10 times stronger than the rest of our galaxy, according to a finding that can affect diverse fields from star formation theory to cosmology.
The evidence is significant because it gives astronomers a lower limit on the magnetic field, an important factor in [...]
Washington, Jan 3 (ANI): We are able to recognize facial expressions in motion far better than in a static photograph, a new study has found.
According to scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in T
London, Jan 1 (IANS) Researchers have developed a foolproof way to analyse DNA samples from human remains 30,000 years ago, allowing a direct look into the history of evolution.
DNA – the hereditary material contained in the nuclei and mitochondria of all body cells – is a hardy molecule and can persist, conditions permitting, for tens [...]
Berlin, January 1 (ANI): An international team of scientists has directly measured for the first time the speed with which new mutations occur in plants, thus capturing evolution in the act.
The team comprised of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tubingen, [...]
Washington, January 1 (ANI): A team of scientists has shown how it is possible to directly analyze DNA from ancient modern humans who lived around 30,000 years ago.
DNA that is left in the remains of long-dead plants, animals, or humans allows a direct look into the history of evolution.
So far, studies of this kind [...]
London, Dec 24 (IANS) Computers can pretty well figure out the colour composition or aesthetics of paintings, but still lag behind humans in interpreting art.
How does one place an artwork in a particular artistic period? This is the question raised by scientists from the Laboratory of Graphics and Image in the University of Girona and [...]
London, Dec 21 (ANI): Scientists from LMU Munich have identified a mechanism behind brain metastases of cancer patients.
Led by neurologist Dr. Frank Winkler, the research team followed, in real time, the steps that lead some tumour cells to establish metastases, while others fail to form new tumours.
They discovered that, by blocking formation of [...]
Washington, December 9 (ANI): An international research team has taken a deep look into the shape and geometry of the accreting material around the black hole in nearby Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN).
The team, led by Makoto Kishimoto from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, [...]
Washington, December 8 (ANI): Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have discovered and directly imaged a faint celestial body that orbits the star GJ 758, which at a temperature of around 330 degrees Celsius, is the coldest companion of a Sun-like star ever to be directly imaged.
Known as GJ 758 B, the object’s [...]
London, Dec 5 (ANI): In a study on fruit flies, researchers from Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing have tried to explore how reduction in specific nutrients or calorie intake could be beneficial for healthy ageing.
Previous evidence from different organisms (fruit flies and mice) have shown that dietary restriction increases longevity, but with a [...]
London, Nov 28 (IANS) The forests and grasslands of Europe could have absorbed 19 percent of the global-warming greenhouse gases emitted by the continent, if intensive land management had not ruined this carbon sink, so that it now absorbs only two percent, a new study has found.
Of all global carbon dioxide emissions, less than half [...]
Washington, Nov 27 (ANI): Two new devices have shown tremendous promise in fighting methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), as well as other drug-resistant bacteria.
The two instruments are low-temperature plasma prototypes, which have demonstrated in tests that they can pose a real challenge to these microorganisms.
The find is made all [...]
Berlin, November 24 (ANI): A team of scientists, with the aid of a mathematical model, has reconstructed the evolution of bat migration.
The migratory behaviour of the largest extant family of bats, the so-called “Vespertilionidae”, was studied by researchers at Princeton University in the US and at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell, Germany.
They [...]
Washington, November 24 (ANI): Physicists at Empa, together with chemists from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz have, for the first time, succeeded in synthesizing a graphene-like porous polymer with atomic accuracy.
Graphene consists of a two-dimensional carbon layer in which the carbon [...]
Washington, November 12 (ANI): Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research and at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces have developed a catalyst that converts methane to methanol in a simple and efficient process.
Although there are chemical ways to convert [...]
Washington, November 12 (ANI): The SUNRISE balloon-borne telescope, the result of an international project, has delivered images that show the complex interplay on the solar surface to a level of detail never before achieved.he SUNRISE is a collaborative project between the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau and partners in Germany, Spain [...]
Washington, Nov 11 (ANI): Do you speak English as a second language, but feel uncomfortable while understanding films with unfamiliar accents? Well, worry not, for a team of Dutch researchers has come to your rescue.
In their study, boffins have shown how you can improve your second-language listening ability by watching movies with subtitles- but the [...]
London, Nov 10 (ANI): A small microscope mounted on an animal’s head provides a better view of how the brain processes visual and other stimuli on the move.
The device contains a laser, which can scan the activity of neurons through a tiny hole in the skull, made under anaesthetic prior to the experiment, reports New [...]
London, November 09 (ANI): Early life trauma and stress can result in behavioural problems, according to a new study in mice.
Christopher Murgatroyd, a scientist from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany, who led the study, briefed that the stressed mice produced hormones that “changed” their genes, to affect their long-term behavioural “programme.”
The [...]
London, October 28 (ANI): Scientists have suggested that a load of monster supernovae may be causing a mysterious “haze” of radiation at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy.
In 2003, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe found a patch of particularly energetic microwave radiation in the centre of our galaxy – dubbed the “WMAP haze”.
It [...]
London, Oct 25 (ANI): Neanderthals had sex with modern humans across the species barrier, claims a leading geneticist.
Using DNA retrieved from fossils, Professor Svante Paabo, director of genetics at the renowned Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, will soon publish his analysis of the entire Neanderthal genome.
Through the study, he hopes to compare [...]
Washington, Oct 22 (ANI): A new study has revealed that our brains can be trained to consciously see stimuli that would normally be invisible.
Study’s lead author Caspar Schwiedrzik from the Max Planck Institute for [...]
Washington, Oct 19 (ANI): Monkeys drum to communicate messages about power and status – the louder the drumming, the bigger and stronger the animal likely is. However, researchers feel that the behaviour could provide insights into the origin of music.
In the wild, monkeys known as macaques drum by shaking branches or thumping on dead logs [...]
Washington, Oct 15 (ANI): Our brains have the amazing ability to be energy efficient, say researchers.
A study published in Science and reviewed by F1000 Biology members Venkatesh Murthy and Jakob Sorensen has revealed that brain cells generate and propagate nerve impulses, or action potentials, by controlling the flow of positive sodium and potassium ions in [...]
Washington, September 26 (ANI): A team of scientists has found that a group of Great Tits in a cave in Hungary has acquired a new habit of eating hibernating common pipistrelle bats under harsh conditions of snow cover.
Reports on the ingenuity of birds of the tit family in their search for food go as far [...]
Washington, Sept 20 (ANI): A team of researchers is probing the links between modern humans and Neanderthals.
Homo neanderthalensis nearly made it through two Ice Ages in Europe, and disappeared roughly 30,000 years ago.
Now, Richard “Ed” Green, PhD, who studies Neanderthal DNA at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany joined hands [...]
Washington, September 16 (ANI): Networks of giant polygonal troughs etched across crater basins on Mars have been identified as desiccation cracks caused by evaporating lakes, providing further evidence of a warmer, wetter Martian past.
The findings were presented at the European Planetary Science Congress by PhD student M. Ramy El Maarry of the Max Planck Institute [...]
Washington, September 4 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have discovered that a duplicate copy of a gene involved in embryonic development of fish has taken up a newer role in the evolution of fish scales.
Scientists have suspected that spare parts [...]
Washington, September 3 (ANI): Ever wondered why people often spend their valuable time and energy to help a neighbour, with no promise of payback?
Well, Harriet Over and Malinda Carpenter of Germany’s Max Planck Institute have now found that priming infants with subtle cues to affiliation increases their tendency to be helpful.
During a study, they showed [...]
