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Orcas: Expensive “Mother’s Boys”

Orcas have amazing mother-son bonds. © Center for Whale Research (permit number: NMFS 21238) Maternal care of the extreme kind: Orca mothers take care of...

How Poker Has Evolved Over The Last Decade

Poker has experienced a seismic shift in popularity over the past decade. Once considered to be mostly played by professional gamblers, it is now...

Our plastic waste also ends up in the Arctic

Plastic waste washed ashore on Svalbard, sorted by country of origin © J. Hagemann Plastic waste pollutes the oceans and is found even in supposedly...

Invasive freshwater turtles now also with us

The North American false map turtle (Graptemys pseudogeographica) has established itself in Baden-Württemberg. © Johannes Penner ...

Largest collection of cuneiform texts digitized and published

A tablet with a Babylonian text fragment in cuneiform. © LMU 300,000 lines of text from ancient Mesopotamia, including previously unknown versions of the Epic...

Photo worth seeing: Fairy robots

This small, luminous creature looks like it has sprung from a fairytale world. The project it belongs to is aptly named FAIRY. But instead...

Atmospheric fluxes eat away at sea ice

In the winter months, the sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean is recovering more and more slowly. © Justinreznick/Istock ...

How dogs react to wolves howling

Illustration of the results of the study. © Lehoczki Fanni and Gáti Oszkár Dániel Like their wild ancestors, dogs are known to howl. However, this...

Education gaps quantified by Corona

Homeschooling was the norm for months during the Corona pandemic. © selimaksan/ iStock During the corona pandemic, most schools were temporarily closed. A meta-analysis of...

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