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“Toxic algae” fertilized since the Bronze Age

Humans have apparently been influencing the growth of potentially problematic blue-green algae for a long time. © marvod/iStock ...

But no microbiome before birth

In the womb, the fetus is largely protected from bacteria. © janulla/ iStock Our microbiome plays a crucial role in our health. But when does...

Europe is still too dry

Groundwater deficits in 2019 - since then the levels have hardly recovered. © Andreas Kvas/ Graz University of Technology ...

Photo worth seeing: radiation from the past

The Milky Way in the night sky over South Africa. Below her is a very special radio telescope: The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array...

Does Germany have room for wild moose and bison?

Wild herd of bison in the Polish Carpathians. © Szymon Bartosz/ iStock Bisons and elks were native to our regions for thousands of years, today...

Violence in early peasant societies

Map of north-west Europe showing archaeological sites with evidence of violence-related injuries on Neolithic skeletons (red) and cases with evidence of collective violence (blue)....

Early primate relatives in the Arctic

This is what Ignacius dawsonae might have looked like. © Kristen Miller/ University of Kansas Early relatives of primates lived on the Canadian island of...

How Horse Racing Became A Popular Sport

There are few sports that can boast a more illustrious history than horse racing. The sport has been around for over a thousand years,...

Drone collects environmental DNA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jpTahO7pls On the trail of biodiversity: Researchers have developed a drone that can land on branches and capture genetic traces that living beings have left...

Hope for refined antibiotics

Due to its special mechanism of action at the DNA level, albicidin appears to be a promising candidate for the development of new antibiotics....

Oldest Runestone discovered

This stone slab with Norse runic characters is almost 2000 years old. © Alexis Pantos, Kulturhistorisk Museum/ University of Oslo ...

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