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Nanoplastics also in farm animal cells

Cells from the bovine ovary with ingested nanoplastics (green). © Micro- and nanoplastics have long been present everywhere in our environment. Now a new...

Mysterious Triassic world

The fearsome dinosaur Batrachotomus kupferzellensis roamed what is now southern Germany during the Triassic period. © SMNS, M. Rech Bizarre creatures in sight: In the...

Photo worth seeing: A microscopic La Ola wave

What looks like bright orange modern art is actually spherical larvae of the marine annelid Platynereis under the microscope. The hair-like projections on the...

Stone Age hunting traps discovered on the Adriatic

In Europe too, Stone Age hunters apparently built stone walls to drive game into a trap. © Gennaro Leonardi/iStock On a karst plateau on the...

The world of dinosaurs

© SMNS, Isabell Rosin/Milan Pallmann In the new special exhibition at the Natural History Museum in Stuttgart, visitors will now encounter wondrous animals from the...

X-ray laser reveals new shape of water ice

At room temperature and normal pressure, water molecules are only loosely bound - water is liquid, as seen here. But under high pressure, exotic...

Martian volcanoes as a source of ice?

Eruptions of Martian volcanoes, here Syrtis Major, may once have created ice deposits near the equator. © ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum) ...

How stalagmites get their shape

Stalagmite and stalactite in Punkva Cave, Czech Republic. Researchers have now mathematically described what determines the shape of a stalagmite. © Piotr Szymczak ...

Your own childlike face brings back memories

Utkarsh Gupta demonstrates the rejuvenating illusion on his own likeness. © Anglia Ruskin University As adults, we often find it difficult to recall memories from...

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