Earth & Climate

With electrons against germs in seeds

In order to produce healthy plants, seeds should be free of pathogens....

Turtles hardly seem to age – but why is that?

With many turtle species, the chance that the animals die each year does not or hardly increase. He would be about 190 years old:...

Photo worth seeing: Winged link of evolution

This Australian bee is one of a species that may be making the transition from solitary to insect colony life right now. "The existence of...

20 cm nudibranch with very long penis discovered in Montenegro

Somewhere deep in the rainforest, researchers sometimes come across an undiscovered insect, but it doesn't happen often that they still find new animal...

Export production threatens habitats

The area under cultivation for agricultural trade has increased to over 23 percent worldwide. © Pexels/ Mikhail Nilov Whether grain, vegetables or rubber: Global...

‘Dominoes don’t fall faster on smooth or rough surfaces’

What determines how quickly dominoes fall? Two engineers determined this by working with virtual dominoes. Until 2009, dropping as many dominoes as possible...

Last night bizarre mites had sex in your pores

The first-ever complete DNA analysis of the mites that live in our hair follicles reveals some peculiar body features and even more remarkable...

Life discovered in Mars-like Canadian Arctic

It turns out that unknown micro-organisms thrive in an extremely salty, cold and oxygen-free environment. And that bodes well for our search...

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