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Beneficial aliens harm insects

Earthworms are useful only where ecosystems have adapted to their activity. © V. Gutekunst Useful for us - problematic elsewhere: Earthworms introduced from Europe...

This is what a galaxy looks like at different wavelengths

Unfortunately, we cannot see infrared light, ultraviolet radiation or X-rays with our own eyes. Still, scientists look at galaxies, black holes and...

Neutrinos are lighter than 0.8 electron volts

View into KATRIN's main spectrometer. © Joachim Wolf/ KIT Neutrinos are light elementary particles that play a crucial role in particle physics and cosmology....

Stone Age people used olives

View of the entrance to El Harhoura Cave in northern Morocco. © Christophe Falgueres As early as 100,000 years ago, wild olive trees provided...

A single gene as a key factor

Thale cress with aphids and aphid wasps. © Matthias Furler Changing a single gene can affect an entire ecosystem, as researchers found out in...

Human genome fully decoded

DNA encodes the human genome. © peterschreiber.media/ iStock 21 years ago, the Human Genome Project decoded the human genome for the first time -...

Origin shapes orientation skills

Whether people grew up in well-ordered settlement structures like in Chicago (left) or in more "organic" ones like in Prague (right) is reflected in...

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