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How Is High-Quality Cannabis Cultivated?

With legalization becoming increasingly widespread, it's no surprise that there is more interest than ever in growing cannabis. However, it can be difficult to...

First approaches against Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Antibodies are said to slow down brain degradation in Creutzfeldt-Jakob. © Gilnature/ iStock There is currently no therapy for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), in which...

City as an evolutionary factor

White clover shows widespread adaptation to urban life. ©MarcJohnson Using the example of white clover, researchers have shown for the first time on a...

Journey through life: Gazelle travels more than 18,000 kilometers

A Mongolian gazelle (Procapra gutturosa) with transmitter. © Senckenberg/ Dejid From climbing snow-covered hills to crossing roaring rivers to returning home – the GPS...

Beginnings of paleontological art

With the conversion of a pterosaur fossil into a "living" drawing, Georg August Goldfuss provided one of the first examples of the scientifically sound...

Brain Studies: Only meaningful with many participants

The relationship between brain anatomy and psychology is difficult to grasp. © Alex Berdis Brain scans promise to provide insights into the brain and...

Ceres: A dwarf planet that has it all

Ceres has craters that provide insights into exciting features of the dwarf planet. © MPS, based on data from the Dawn mission: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA The...

Photo worth seeing: Sensor technology inspired by dandelion

These small sensors not only look like dandelion seeds, they also fly through the air like this and could make agriculture more digital. Using wireless...

How wildfires affect the ozone layer

Forest fire in the Blue Mountains of Australia© lovleah/ iStock In the Australian summer of 2019/2020 there were devastating fires that destroyed around 12.5 million...

Tiny space rock entered our atmosphere just hours after discovery last week

It is only the fifth space rock discovered prior to its collision with Earth's atmosphere. Late last week, astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky spotted a bright,...

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