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Fingerprints reveal not only the perpetrator, but also what happened at a crime scene

Fingerprints appear to contain valuable information about the exact actions that took place during a crime. At present, fingerprints are mainly used in forensic research...

Meanders help the climate

Meander of the Rio Bermejo in South America. (Image: Kristen Cook / GFZ) Sediments in water bodies and seas help to bind carbon in...

Rocky exoplanets turn out to harbor rocks that we don’t know in our solar system

It seems that rocky exoplanets are even stranger than thought. Meanwhile, astronomers have already discovered thousands of planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy. ...

Caterpillar Never Enough also appears to contribute to climate change

The faeces of hungry caterpillars have been shown to act as fertilizer for aquatic microbes, which in turn release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Major...

Brits want to build a 50-meter-deep swimming pool for astronauts

It should be the largest and deepest swimming pool in the world that, for example, astronauts can make grateful use of in preparation for...

Baleen whales: underrated eco-engineers

A blue whale leaves a business with a fertilizing effect. (Image: Elliott Hazen under NOAA / NMFS permit 16111) Surprisingly large amounts of food...

How climate change affects crops

Projected changes in global crop yields. (Image: NASA / Katy Mersmann) Warmer temperatures, changed precipitation patterns and more CO2 in the atmosphere: Climate change...

The Celts and Romans already operated mining in the Montafon

View of the Montafon valley and excavations at the western end of the Knappagruaba. (Image: Rüdiger Krause / Goethe University Frankfurt) Ores were mined...

Dogs learn to recognize individual words in a word stream in the same way that humans do

It means that certain neural mechanisms involved in the acquisition of human language may not be so uniquely human after all… Have you ever told...

On the trail of cosmic bombardment

In one of the lunar rock samples, the metal inclusions are visible, which come from former asteroid impacts. (Image: AG Kleine) Did changes in...

Scientists ‘smell’ Amsterdam nanoplastics in the pristine high Alps

A very unpleasant surprise. Some time ago, an international team of researchers – including scientists from Utrecht University – traveled to the high Alps to...

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