For animals, sleeping on their left side is not about comfort. It is a survival strategy.

Ein Forschungsteam aus Bochum und Hannover zeigt, dass das Hepatitis E-Virus auch andere Organe als die Leber befällt.

The fact that left-handedness resp. mixed-handedness are strikingly common in patients with certain neurological disorders such as autism spectrum disorders is a frequently reported observation in ...

For generations, researchers have been pondering the question of how and where consciousness is formed in the brain. Professor Ekrem Dere from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, proposes a new approach ...

Einen breiten Überblick über die Biokatalyse bietet der Band „Biocatalysis“, den der Bochumer Biotechnologe Prof. Dr. Dirk Tischler herausgegeben hat. Sieben der insgesamt 24 Kapitel wurden von ...

The first day of school: entering the classroom for the first time, the excited feeling in your stomach and the joy of having a school bag – these are all typical examples of memories from our ...

Virtual reality (VR) is not only a technology for games and entertainment, but also has potential in science and medicine. Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have now gained new insights ...

Natural hydrogen-producing enzymes are large and extremely sensitive to oxygen. This makes it difficult to use them for the applied production of green hydrogen. Researchers from the ...

Exposure therapy for a specific fear can also help reduce other fears. This is the conclusion reached by psychologists at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, who studied 50 people with a fear of spiders ...

In urban planning, competing interests – such as creating more space for housing while preserving biodiversity – often have to be reconciled. How this could be better achieved in the future, was ...

The water temperature is zero to two degrees. “Please put your non-dominant hand in the cold water pool. And now look at the camera in front of you,” the instruction says. An engine makes the cold ...

In scenarios where two mirror-image molecules are possible, special catalysts are required to produce only the desired one. A research team from the Ruhr Explores Solvation RESOLV Cluster of ...