Earth & Climate

In 2024 the 1.5 degree threshold was exceeded for the first time

Soil air temperature anomalies for 2024 compared to the average of the reference period 1991-2020. Data: ERA5. © C3S / ECMWF ...

Photo worth seeing: AI for teaching the future

How could artificial intelligence promote learning? In the EdTech Lab at the...

Photo worth seeing: The history of our crops

Although the number of edible plants is hard to keep track of,...

Photo worth seeing: The mathematics of cartography

You can easily make a cylinder out of a sheet of paper...

Wind causes snowflakes to shrink and grow

In Antarctica, the wind transports enormous amounts of snow and thus influences the water balance in this zone, which is important for the global...

Photo worth seeing: A suffering shared is a suffering halved

Some of our closest living relatives, the bonobos, are increasingly becoming orphaned...

Photo worth seeing: Digital fingerprints for art

An innovative app can now be used to check the authenticity of...

Photo worth seeing: In the forest of butterflies

These “clumps” on trees at Mexico’s El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary are...

Photo worth seeing: Roman art among the Germanic peoples

The State Museum of Prehistory in Halle presents ancient agate artifacts that...

Tourism causes rapidly increasing CO2 emissions

CO2 emissions from the tourism industry have increased twice as fast as global CO2 emissions as a whole. © Tourism Emissions Project Team/University of...

Some invasive animal species are threatened in their native land

Wild rabbits are endangered in Europe, but in Australia they have spread rapidly as an invasive species. © Alexis Lours ...

Decreased albedo causes rapid global warming

High clouds and clear skies can increase warming. However, the same also applies to the loss of the low cloud layers. © Alfred Wegener...

Photo worth seeing: Two blood-red galaxy eyes

These reddish, almost hypnotizing “eyes” are actually two galaxies, captured by two...

Why chipmunks aren’t thirsty while they hibernate

Thirteen-striped squirrels (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus) do not drink during their hibernation phase - even if they wake up in between. © Gracheva lab ...

Photo worth seeing: Neurons in view

This huge, green fluorescent eye does not belong to an alien, but...

Rise of the dinosaurs explained

Their diet once made the dinosaurs world rulers. © Marcin Ambrozik After their...

Photo worth seeing: How medications disrupt the intestinal flora

In addition to antibiotics, other medications can also have a negative effect...

Photo worth seeing: The book that tackles a topic in the most original way 204

Knowledge book of the year 2024 in the SURPRISE category The ghost town...

Photo worth seeing: New heights of computing power

As one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world, “JUPITER” at...

How cockatoos choose between light and heavy things

Goffin's cockatoos prefer light over heavier objects. © Antonio J. Osuna-Mascaró Goffin cockatoos...

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