With their biotope "BioDiversum", scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen want to draw attention to the fact that biodiversity...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Melting permafrost may turn out to be Pandora's box.
Due to global warming, the permafrost is thawing: the previously permanently frozen soil that we mainly...
Reconstruction of the original tusk carrier Dicynodon. (Image: Marlene Hill Donnelly)
Whether elephants, walruses or warthogs - tusks have developed independently of one another...
More summer showers, a considerably higher sea level and severe drought: climate change is not going to affect our little country.
This is evident from...
This is apparent from a British study, in which the effectiveness of two vaccines against the now dominant delta variant was examined.
Meanwhile, more and...
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...