Cognitive performance prediction may help identify early cognitive decline. However, the heterogeneity of research findings impedes the identification of key predictors. This study used 21,877 participants (25–74 years) from the German National Cohort (NAKO Gesundheitsstudie, NAKO) to systematically predict cognitive test scores based on brain structure, demographic, health-related, and cognitive data. Importantly, validation...

This paper is a collaborative effort that originated at the International Space Science Institute Workshop on “Physical links between Weather and Climate in Space and the Lower Atmosphere” held 22–26 January 2024. Many scientists attended that workshop and contributed their expertise related to polar vortex impacts on upper atmosphere variability. This paper summarizes well-known and newly reported signatures of polar vortex w...

The Argentine submarine ARA (Armada de la República Argentina) San Juan went missing on November 15th, 2017, with its last confirmed contact location around 600 kilometres East of Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut, Argentina. In the days following the initiation of the multi-national search and rescue mission, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) analysed data recorded by its International Monitoring System...

Previous paleolimnological studies demonstrated that the sediments of Garba Guracha, situated at 3950 m asl in the afro-alpine zone of the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia, provide a complete Late Glacial and Holocene paleoclimate and environmental archive. We revisited Garba Guracha in order to retrieve new sediment cores and to apply new environmental proxies, e.g. charcoal, diatoms, biomarkers, and stable isotopes. Our chronology...

Summary Ammonia‐oxidizing archaea (AOA) constitute a considerable fraction of microbial biomass in the global ocean, comprising 20%–40% of the ocean's prokaryotic plankton. However, it remains enigmatic to what extent these chemolithoautotrophic archaea release dissolved organic carbon (DOC). A combination of targeted and untargeted metabolomics was used to characterize the exometabolomes of three model AOA strains of the Nitr...

Natural colonizations across watersheds have been frequently proposed to explain the present distributions of many freshwater fish species. However, detailed studies of such potential watershed crossings are still missing. Here, we investigated potential postglacial watershed crossings of the widely distributed European bullhead ( Cottus gobio L.) in two different areas along the Rhine–Rhône watershed using detailed genetic an...

The relationship between sperm velocity and individual age, size, body condition and fluctuating asymmetry was investigated in Alpine whitefish Coregonus fatioi . The fish analysed belonged to one among several sympatric whitefish populations of Lake Thun, Switzerland, which are characterized by a high prevalence of gonad alterations. Therefore, sperm velocity data were also tested for a link between gonad deformation and sper...