A study in Science has opened a rare window into one of evolution’s deepest mysteries: how complex animals began to take over Earth’s oceans before the famous Cambrian explosion. The fossils, found in southwest China, include evidence for animals linked to deuterostomes, the great branch of life that includes humans and our closest invertebrate relatives.…
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A new study in Review of Scientific Instruments describes Europe’s first synchrotron-based TES spectrometer, now operating at BESSY II in Berlin. The instrument gives scientists a far more sensitive way to capture faint X-ray signals from materials that were previously too thin, too dilute, or too delicate for many standard experiments. Developed through a collaboration…
NASA has brought together decades of evidence in an official Moon formation overview that traces our satellite to one of the most violent events in Solar System history. About 4.5 billion years ago, a planetary body roughly the size of Mars may have struck the young Earth. The collision launched molten and vaporized rock into…
A study in Neuron involving 41 healthy volunteers found that slow breathing with a longer exhale can shift heart activity, change reward processing in the brain and make people more likely to choose riskier options. Researchers from the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, known as DIfE and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin showed that a…
