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On the road with writing women

Mary Shelley, Else Lasker-Schuler and Simone de Beauvoir: These women not only wrote and left important works behind. They are also connected by a...

Lead from gasoline also ends up in the Arctic Ocean

Large amounts of lead enter the Arctic Ocean from the North Atlantic via ocean currents. © TT/iStock The Arctic Ocean has long been considered a...

Outdated clichés

This book will neither appeal to people who are upset about LGBTQA* and the “gender debate,” nor to those for whom biology is irrelevant....

Photo worth seeing: Alpine weather research

Why is the weather in the mountains so difficult to predict and how can threatening developments be better predicted? The TEAMx research project in...

How the immune system slows down fat loss

Losing weight is rarely easy, but obese people find it particularly difficult. © BrianAJackson/iStock Our immune cells actively ensure that we don't lose weight too...

What did Christmas presents look like in the Middle Ages?

In the run-up to Christmas, people in medieval London imported, among other things, numerous Jesus figures. © Unsplash Anyone who wants to give presents to...

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