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What lack of sleep does to us

Many people sleep less than is good for them for various reasons. © AndreyPopov/iStock If you don't sleep enough, you don't just feel tired. Lack...

Strategic Safeguards: Exploring Military Defense Tools

Discover pivotal insights into military defense tools, their evolution, and their strategic significance in safeguarding nations' security. Read now! In today's world, protecting a country's...

Early city dwellers wisely ate fertilized peas

The so-called Trypillia mega-settlements in today's Ukraine and Moldova are considered to be the oldest city-like settlements in Europe. Artistic representation © Susanne...

Antarctic ice loss reflected in octopus DNA

Various subpopulations of an octopus species (right, © Dave Barnes, BAS) occur in the coastal waters around Antarctica (left, © Rainer Lesniewski/iStock). ...

Previously hidden “naked stars” discovered

Artist's impression of the withdrawal of the hydrogen shell in a binary star system. © Navid Marvi, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for...

How do defaults influence scientific results?

In many scientific disciplines there are competing models to explain certain phenomena. How do they influence data interpretation?© TCmake_photo/ iStock ...

Why dogs have darker eyes than wolves

Dogs have significantly darker and redder eyes than wolves. © lutavia / iStock Compared to its ancestor, the wolf, its domesticated descendants, the dogs, have...

Blue-black carpenter bee is “Wild Bee of the Year” 2024

A female blue-black carpenter bee visiting flowers. © Jürgen Busse At first glance, the blue-black carpenter bee (Xylocopa violacea) has little in common with the...

Ecosystem in oil shale

The Messel Pit fossil site near Darmstadt provides unique insights into a warm period 48 million years ago. Today, paleontologists not only look for...

Extragalactic star breeding grounds mapped

Special molecular radiation (highlighted in color) shows the regions with star-forming clouds in the Whirlpool Galaxy. © Thomas Müller (HdA/MPIA), S. Stuber et...

Curse tablet discovered in medieval latrine

Archaeologists discovered this curse tablet from the 15th century in a latrine during an excavation at the town hall construction site. When unrolled,...

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