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How plants buy us time in the face of climate change

Photosynthesis in plants is an important CO2 sink. (Image: Jeja / iStock) How does the photosynthesis rate of plants change when more CO2 is...

Why the dormant brain also eats energy

Nerves are connected to one another via synapses in which neurotransmitters are stored in vesicles. (Image: alex-mit / iStock) In contrast to muscles and...

One of the most massive planets ever discovered in a system that many believed planets had no future in

The universe continues to amaze astronomers. About 325 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Centaurus, we find the binary star b Centauri – which...

Plants now remove much more CO2 from the air

But not enough to stop climate change. Wooded areas and similar ecosystems are considered to be one of the planet's most important carbon sinks. ...

Species identification: DNA barcoding for everyone

https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-021-01141-x The biodiversity on our planet is huge, but how many and which species there are is only known to a fraction. One of...

Two more space tourists will fly to the International Space Station tomorrow

The countdown has begun for Yusaku Maezawa: Tomorrow morning, the Japanese billionaire – along with his assistant – will board the Russian Soyuz and...

Stonehenge: fruit bread as a winter power food?

This is what the Neolithic fruit loaves might have looked like. (Image: English Heritage) The Stone Age visitors to the stone circles of Stonehenge...

Extra solar lightweight with a large core

This is what the exoplanet GJ 367b could look like. (Image: SPP 1992 / Patricia Klein) The smaller and lighter an exoplanet, the more...

Scientists are hunting for microplastics using… sound waves

Using acoustic waves, small pieces of plastic can be effectively fished out of polluted water. Microplastics are tiny, but a huge problem. Over the...

Can Viagra Reduce The Risk Of Alzheimer’s Disease?

The 'little blue pill' may be a promising but unexpected weapon in the fight against progressive brain disease. Viagra – containing the active ingredient Sildenafil...

Less animal experiments through brain models

So far, many laboratory animals have had to suffer for studies and drug tests in brain research. (Image: filo / iStock) Organoids instead of...

New marker for the severity of Covid-19

The vesicles on the cell surface of these lymphocytes from Covid patients and their contents reveal the severity of the infection. (M. Schifferer...

Your plastic chip tray exacerbates that other major health crisis: the rise of resistant bacteria

Because discarded plastic appears to make an important contribution to the threat of resistance to antibiotics. We are currently experiencing some major health crises. ...

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