Many people express objections against child labor, exploitation of the workforce or meat production involving cruelty against animals. At the same time, however, people ignore their own moral standards when acting as market ...

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

May 10, 2013 3.8 / 5 (5) 8 |

A long-forgotten candidate for antiviral therapy is undergoing a renaissance: Since the 1970s, the small molecule CMA has been considered a potent agent against viral infections, yet it was never approved ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Apr 19, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

The climate is getting warmer, and sea levels are rising – a threat to island nations. As a group of researchers lead by colleagues from the University of Bonn found out, at the same time, tiny single-cell ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 06, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 8

Hybrid plants provide much higher yield than their homozygous parents. Plant breeders have known this for more than 100 years and used this effect called heterosis for richer harvests. Until now, science ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Dec 03, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Computer scientists from the University of Bonn have developed a new robot whose source code and design plan is publicly accessible. It is intended to facilitate the entry into research on humanoids, in particular, ...

Electronics - Robotics

Oct 30, 2012 4.5 / 5 (4) 0

Biologists from the University of Bonn have discovered that the cichlid fish Pelvicachromis taeniatus can see in the near infrared range; this was thought to be unlikely until now. Seeing in the infrared range is apparently helpin ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 30, 2012 3.5 / 5 (2) 2 |

Over the past 10,000 years, climate changes in the Dead Sea region have led to surprisingly swift desertification within mere decades. This is what researchers from the University of Bonn and their Israeli colleagues found ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Aug 22, 2012 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

Archaeologists from the Department of Anthropology of the Americas at the University of Bonn have been excavating for the past four years together with the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History in the Maya ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Jul 30, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

Researchers from the University of Bonn have just shown how a single atom can be split into its two halves, pulled apart and put back together again. While the word "atom" literally means "indivisible," the ...

Physics - General Physics

Jun 05, 2012 4.6 / 5 (27) 12 |

Scientists from the Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Bonn have succeeded for the first time in the real time filming of the transport of an important information carrier in biological ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

May 25, 2012 not rated yet 0 |

Black fire beetles of the genus Melanophila possess unusual infrared sensors. Researchers from the University of Bonn and from the Forschungszentrum Julich have concluded that the beetles' sensors might even ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 23, 2012 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

At the supermarket checkout, hardly anybody enters prices manually anymore. Using scanners that can read the barcodes is much faster. Biologists now want to use a similar procedure for identifying domestic animal and plant ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Apr 25, 2012 not rated yet 0

International researchers under the aegis of the University of Bonn have discovered the probable cause of not just one, but several infectious agents at the same time. Paramyxoviruses originate from ubiquitous ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 24, 2012 3.7 / 5 (3) 0

Until recently, the production of pluripotent "multipurpose" stem cells from skin cells was considered to be the ultimate new development. In the meantime, it has become possible to directly convert cells ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Apr 11, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 0 |

Components of the venom from marine cone snails can block the transmission of signals between nerve cells in minute quantities. This makes them potentially suitable for use as a novel analgesic. Researchers ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Apr 04, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0