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Dogs’ brains can distinguish languages

A dog taking a speech test in the brain scanner. (Image: Eniko Kubinyi) For the first time, researchers have shown that not only humans...

Surprise: dreaded superbug MRSA wasn’t created by humans after all

On the hunt for the origin of the superbug, researchers – surprisingly – end up not with our antibiotics, but with… the hedgehog. MRSA...

First human victim of the Thera disaster discovered

Skeleton of the Bronze Age tsunami victim. (Image: Vasıf Şahoğlu) The eruption of the Thera volcano in the Aegean Sea was one of the...

1.8 million additional deaths from urban air pollution

Air pollution in the city. (Image: Chris Leboutillier) Whether fine dust, nitrogen oxides or other pollutants - the air is thick in many metropolises...

Twenty new jumbo viruses discovered on human skin

These jumbo viruses – very large viruses that attack bacteria – appear to live mainly on our hands and feet. Microbiomes – communities of...

How the brain associates smells with places

It appears that olfactory neurons encode spatial maps. (Illustration: Diogo Matias, Champalimaud Foundation) This is what the office smells like, so the kitchen ...:...

Trabant of two giants

This is what the gas giant discovered around the massive double star b Centauri could look like. (Image: ESO / L. Calçada) So far,...

look up! This is the year we’re going to ram an asteroid!

Spacecraft DART is currently heading for its fatal final destination: Dimorphos. And along the way, he has already shot some important space...

On the trail of exciting DNA in sediments

Sampling from an impregnated sediment block for the analysis of old DNA. (Image: MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology) How has the genetic material survived the...

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