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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:...

Historical lecture notes discovered

Left: This depiction of a human skull was made by Nikolai Miklucho-Maclay as an illustration for Carl Gegenbaur's lecture notes. Left: Drawing of...

What should your bedtime routine include?

(Image: thinkstock, Photodsotiroff) Face care is important in the morning and in the evening. But the care products are different. You should therefore...

Dino with severe respiratory infection

Artist's impression of the sick sauropod "Dolly". © Woodruff et al. (2022) and Corbin Rainbolt. Coughing, breathing difficulties and the long neck must...

Another planet discovered around Proxima Centauri

The star closest to our sun turns out to be home to not two, but three planets! The nearest star Proxima Centauri turns out...

Hardly any ecologically intact coastal areas

View of the coast of Balneario Camboriu in Brazil. © Leonardo Filippi The transition from land to sea is one of the most biodiverse...

Monkeys can also succumb under pressure

When the stakes are high, the pressure can become too much. Also for monkeys. You probably remember a time when failure was not...

Coexistence of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens

View of the entrance to the Mandrin Cave in France. © Ludovic Slimak In the Grotto Mandrin in France, researchers have discovered remains of...

Geomagnetic storm kicks up to 40 brand new satellites out of space

The newly launched Starlink satellites can almost certainly be considered lost. SpaceX is now experiencing the fact that our sun can be quite turbulent...

Record-breaking bubble lasts no less than 465(!) days

Anyone who has ever blown bubbles knows that those bubbles are usually short-lived. The situation is very different for a very special...

Historical map reveals land grab

William Clark's rediscovered map, the arrow marks the "boundary" he marked. (Image: National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC) A researcher has discovered a...

How crabs deceive with big guns

This male crab tries to impress his rivals and partners with his extremely enlarged claws. © craykeeper/ iStock Big scissors, nothing behind? Sexual...

New evidence found that flying reptiles also produced pellets

Difficult to digest food was possibly thrown out again by the pterosaurs. Researchers write that in the magazine Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...

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