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The dog brain can distinguish between Spanish and Hungarian

It is the first time that researchers show that a non-human brain can distinguish different languages ​​from each other. Only a few animals can...

A Raetian settlement in sight

An Austrian team of archaeologists is on the trail of the secrets of a settlement that was enthroned on a hill southwest of Innsbruck...

Resistant germs before the antibiotic era

Methicillin-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus occur in hedgehogs, which apparently arose before the clinical use of antibiotics. (Image: kwasny221 / iStock Although modern medicine...

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,...

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