Press and Public Relations

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Jurisprudence . Social and Behavioural Sciences

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No such thing as a typical criminal career

February 21, 2012

Freiburg study questions established criminological theories [more]

Developmental Biology . Immunobiology

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Live from the thymus: T-cells on the move

February 17, 2012

For the first time, scientists follow the development of individual immune cells in a living zebrafish embryo [more]

Astronomy

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How globular star clusters survive collisions

February 14, 2012

Simulations shed new light onto the turbulent birth of objects approx. 13 billion years ago [more]

Astronomy

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Tiny galaxy with a huge appetite

February 08, 2012

For the first time, astronomers have caught a so-called dwarf galaxy in the process of swallowing another, even smaller galaxy. [more]

Evolutionary Biology . Genetics

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Entire genome of extinct human decoded from fossil

February 07, 2012

The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, has completed the genome sequence of a Denisovan, a representative of an Asian group of extinct humans related to Neandertals. [more]

Neurosciences

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Sharp images from the living mouse brain

February 06, 2012

Max Planck scientists in Göttingen have for the first time made finest details of nerve cells in the brain of a living mouse visible.
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Genetics . Plant Research

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Genetic information migrates from plant to plant

February 02, 2012

Sexually incompatible species exchange chloroplast genomes at contact zones [more]

Astronomy . Astrophysics

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Millisecond pulsars: the discovery of deceleration

February 02, 2012

Stellar astrophysics helps to explain the behaviour of fast rotating neutron stars in binary systems [more]