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With biotopes against the extinction of species

With their biotope "BioDiversum", scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen want to draw attention to the fact that biodiversity...

Possibly first discovered a planet not in our galaxy

After a blistering search, astronomers may have discovered an exoplanet tens of millions of light-years away. Astronomers have been scanning the night sky for years,...

Footprints Prove Humans Walked Around America 23,000 Years Ago

The footprints are the first undisputed evidence that humans were already found in the Americas during the so-called Last Glacial Maximum. Researchers write that in...

Torte as a contemporary witness of an air raid

Inspection of the cake that was buried in the air raid in 1942. (Image: Hanseatic City of Lübeck) In Lübeck, archaeologists have uncovered an...

Impaired immune timing in severe cases

Tiny pests: artist's depiction of coronaviruses. (Image: BlackJack3D / iStock) What went wrong in the body when a SARS-CoV-2 infection brings people to the...

COVID-19 can just transform into a childhood disease

As adults become immune, the risk of infection will shift to younger, unvaccinated children, researchers predict. What we know so far about the coronavirus seems...

How the first tusks developed

Reconstruction of the original tusk carrier Dicynodon. (Image: Marlene Hill Donnelly) Whether elephants, walruses or warthogs - tusks have developed independently of one another...

Massive collision costs planet its atmosphere

Such violent confrontations are likely to be common in young solar systems — including our own. But this is the first time researchers...

Jupiter hit by space rock for the second time in a month

Japanese amateur astronomers witnessed a bright flash of light, probably caused by a space rock hitting the gas giant. And that just weeks...

It’s now official: the infamous Vinland map is fake

The map – which suggested that the Vikings already visited the New World before Columbus – appears to date not from the fifteenth, but...

Quarantined in a test tube: these flies underwent it for science

And it turns out that quarantined lone fruit flies sleep too little and eat too much. Recognizable? For many people, the lockdowns introduced have...

NASA’s newest spacecraft heads for the moon in February

The unmanned mission is just the prelude to more: a manned mission to the moon! For the past few years, NASA has been working diligently...

Leprosy first detected in wild chimpanzees

Although the symptoms are strikingly similar to those of people with advanced leprosy, it is still questionable whether the disease is indeed human-transmitted. Researchers have...

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