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Caring saber-toothed cats

Artist's impression of Smilodon Saber-toothed cats on a crack. (Image: 1988 MARK HALLETT MURAL, "TRAPPED IN TIME." COURTESY OF LA BREA TAR PITS.) Bony...

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is not only gigantic, but also super deep

Using the Juno spacecraft's keen eye, researchers have unraveled that Jupiter's famed storm may be as deep as 500 kilometers. Planet Jupiter is known for...

Origin of the Tarim mummies revealed

One of the natural mummies from the Tarim Basin. (Image: Wenying Li / Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology) Since numerous naturally preserved...

Brain implant allows blind woman to see shapes

The blind test person Berna Gómez with the special glasses. (Image: University of Utah) A micro-implant could in the future enable blind people to...

Insight into an active galaxy core

Gas filaments generated by the black hole in the galaxy group Nest200047. (Image: University of Bologna) At the heart of most galaxies are supermassive...

Super-sharp images of live bacteria reveal a flaw in their tiny armor

The bacteria may be more vulnerable than previously thought. And that's good news. Scientists of the University College London have created super-sharp images of...

Traces of life discovered in 2.5 billion-year-old gemstone

The ruby ​​appears to contain carbon atoms that were once part of an early life form here on Earth. To gain more insight into how...

Do insects get heart palpitations from fear?

Frightened flies "felt on the pulse". (Video excerpt, Credit: Champalimaud Research) As is well known, frightening situations can get our pulse rate skyrocketing -...

Research proves that women are not at all more emotional than men

The stereotype still prevails that women are more emotional than men. But researchers are now sweeping that prejudice off the table. It is often...

The first dinosaurs were much more social than thought

These prehistoric animals probably lived 40 million years earlier than thought in real herds. It is known that some dinosaurs that roamed the earth during...

Aliens are not responsible for the strange signal that scientists received last year

Researchers have come to this somewhat disappointing conclusion after taking a closer look at the signal – referred to as BLC1. The signal in question...

Astronomers directly observed one of the youngest planets ever

Thanks to the planet, we are now learning more and more about how planets form and change over time. Thousands of planets have already been...

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