The fine dust produced in metropolitan areas causes more oxidative stress in our cells. (Image: ArminStautBerlin / iStock)
Certain types of particulate matter can...
The researchers have detected the anthropogenic mercury in representatives of the bizarre disk-bellied fish (Liparidae) from the Mariana Trench. (Image: Jeff Reid)
Even the...
Incubation experiment: When methane is added to the sediment, bacteria release arsenic, recognizable by its brown color. (Image: Andreas Kappler)
In many Southeast Asian...
Apparently primitive mammals lived in social groups even when the dinosaurs ruled the country. (Artist impression: Misaki Ouchida)
From rodents to primates, many...
Electron micrographs of single-celled algae fossils. Flagella once came out of the holes, which among other things were used to hunt bacteria (red)....
Rhamphorhynchus - one of the 75 species of pterosaurs examined by the researchers. (Artist impression: Mark Witton)
"Aviation" further development over 150 million years:...
Icebergs off Greenland (Image: Imagebear / iStock)
Man-made climate change endangers the ice masses in the polar and mountain regions of the world. When...
Artist's impression of Ambopteryx gliding. (Image: Gabriel Ugueto)
The best concepts prevail: This principle of evolution also shaped the development history of "animal aviation"....
Artist's impression of the catastrophic processes involved in the greatest mass extinction of all time. (Image: Dawid A. Iurino)
Hardly anything was left of...
The representatives of the saber-toothed cats, which are also widespread in Europe, could have brought down prey by their persistence, according to genetic evidence....
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The greatest Arctic expedition of all time has been successfully completed! The Alfred Wegener Institute sums up the process and presents impressions of...