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In 2031, the ISS space station will plunge into the sea – and that’s how it goes

NASA has revealed what the end of the now old and familiar International Space Station will look like. Since November 2000, humans have been...

Better gorilla health through corona measures

Tourists wear masks while visiting mountain gorillas in Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda. Measures taken to protect animals from Covid-19 may also have...

Loneliness is a huge problem worldwide

Scientists are urging governments to consider loneliness a public health issue. We know that loneliness affects many people today. For example, research has...

Artificial fish made from human heart cells

The biohybrid fish powered by heart muscle cells. © Michael Rosnach/ Keel Yong Lee/ Sung-Jin Park/ Kevin Kit Parker Researchers have built a fully...

Proxima Centauri has a third planet

This is what the newly discovered planet Proxima Centauri d could look like. ©ESO/L. Calçada So far, two planets have been known to...

Photo worth seeing: Toxic snack

This Japanese squirrel appears to be feeding on a poisonous toadstool with ease. This not only helps the rodent to survive, the fungus...

Gripping plea

Two pioneers of science, the anthropologist David Gräber and the archaeologist David Wengrow, reinterpret human history: nothing about it is predetermined, the course of...

The plague raged in different regions

Evidence of agricultural activity in the Black Death era reflects regional scenarios of the plague's demographic impact. © Hans Sell, Michelle O'Reilly, Adam...

‘Dinosaurs also had a cold sometimes’

This is evidenced by unusually bony protrusions discovered on the neck of an excavated long-necked dinosaur. Possibly 'the cold' even killed the...

Probe designed to tap the sun, surprisingly also glimpses Venus’ mysterious surface

The images, combined into a video, reveal continental areas, plains and plateaus on our sister planet. Smothered in thick clouds, the surface of Venus...

The amazing migration of the dog sharks

A North Sea dogfish with a satellite transmitter. © C. Howe/ H2Owe, Thünen Institute/ M. Schaber From the German Bight to the deep sea:...

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