The Atacama Desert in Chile is the oldest and driest desert on earth. Organisms that live here have adapted to the extreme conditions over thousands…

When cells die, they initiate cell death. In higher organisms, this ensures that the entire organism is not damaged. But the mechanism also exists in…

A team of students wins an international competition in Boston with their plastic-decomposing green algae.

Red blood cells can transport oxygen thanks to their iron atoms. The metal is also used in other places in our cells, such as in the form of various…

How are memories stored in our memory? What happens at the molecular level? Researchers at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (TUK) have shed…