Love your Neighbor

Life Sciences

Helping out your neighbor or minding your own business? A challenging choice with different benefits for each decision. Game theory provides guidance in making such choices - from a theoretical perspective. Novel findings by Jakub Svoboda and Krishnendu Chatterjee at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) reveal new network structures that enhance cooperation throughout a system. These insights have potential applications also in biology.

Conservation paradox: Invasive species are often threatened in their native range

Life Sciences

Non-native animals are a threat to biodiversity, yet many are themselves threatened with extinction in their areas of origin.

Environment - Dec 4

How the biosphere influences cloud formation and climate

Environment

CLOUD project at CERN investigates particle formation of isoprene in the troposphere.

Health - Dec 5

Spleen stiffness as a key to the diagnosis of portal hypertension

Advanced liver disease is the second most common cause of lost working years, as it disproportionately affects young patients. Possible complications of these diseases can often be traced back to high blood pressure in the blood circulation of the liver - portal hypertension.

Health - Dec 4

Mothers massively change their intestines during pregnancy and nursing

Health

When women are pregnant and nurse their babies, their bodies change and various organs, such as the breasts or the immune system, are adapted to ensure the health of both mother and child.

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