Aging is associated with significant decline in cognitive functions. But does this translate into poorer decision making? Psychologists from the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development report that in simple decision situations, older adults perform just as well as younger adults. However, aging may affect decision performance in more complex decision situations.
Physicists have developed an innovative method that could enable the efficient use of nanocomponents in electronic circuits.
The stronger our memory is of a certain food, the more likely we are to choose it – even if it is the more unattractive option. Psychologists at the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ conducted a study on how memory influences our choices by offering various foods and using scans to track brain activity.
Physicists of the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute were able to show for the first time that the nuclear spins of single molecules can be detected with the help of magnetic particles at room temperature.
Generating offspring is the evolutionary goal of all living organisms. The multiplication of individual cells is coordinated by the cell cycle. A team at the Biozentrum of the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ has now identified the central switch for reproduction in bacteria.
Offshore the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago, methane gas is seeping out of the seabed in several hundred meters depth.
Cells of the vascular system of vertebrates can fuse with themselves.
High human atmospheric nitrogen emissions lead to a reduction of plant diversity.
Every third teenager has suffered from one mental disorder and one physical disease. So, more often than average, depression occurs together with diseases of the digestive system. These findings were reported by researchers from the Universities of Basel and Bochum. Their results based on data from 6,500 teenagers.