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Microplastics also appear to influence our climate

Their impact is still small, but could become greater in the coming years as the concentration in the atmosphere increases. All kinds of small dust...

Your brain is as unique as your fingerprint

The 'wiring' in your brain is so unique that you can be recognized by it. In the 17th century, Italian physician Marcello Malpighi discovered the...

Photo worth seeing: A zen garden of nature

These stone circles on Svalbard are created without any human influence. Its creator is nature and its tool is chamois growing out of...

Remarkable: Scientists let tadpoles ‘breathe’ through photosynthesis

By injecting algae into their bloodstream, light was converted into oxygen. And in this miraculous way, researchers managed to save the lives of...

Some people may be naturally resistant to COVID-19

It may explain why some people, despite being close to corona patients, did not get COVID-19. Scientists and doctors are still puzzled as to why...

How climate change is shifting plankton

Marines zooplankton. (Image: tonaquatic / iStock) The warming of the oceans means that the climatic zones in the ocean are shifting. As a...

The time when migration paid off is now really over for some species

But tragically, they continue to make the often grueling and energy-guzzling journey every year. Every year, many animals, including mammals, birds and insects, prepare themselves...

Longhouses of the earliest farmers discovered

Reconstruction of a linear ceramic longhouse. (Photo: M. Steffen / State Office for Monument Preservation in the Stuttgart Regional Council) Near Tübingen, archaeologists discovered...

Immunization effects are inheritable

The characteristics of a living being are also influenced by certain switch molecules on the DNA. (Image: kirtypargeter / iStock) Epigenetic inheritance also shapes...

Curious where we will be in 5 billion years? Astronomers think they know!

But the answer may not immediately appeal to you. Unfortunately, our sun does not have eternal life. Scientists suspect that our parent star will...

What can be heard on Mars? Much more than expected!

And that also tells us a lot more about the atmosphere of the red planet. Mars rover Perseverance has been researching our red, dusty neighboring...

Unlike living relatives, this bizarrely large extinct sloth was not a strict vegetarian

Surprisingly, he occasionally feasted on a piece of tender meat. The six present-day sloth species are all relatively small, vegetarian and especially very lazy arboreal...

How pterosaurs improved their flight performance

Muscle strands on the shoulder made pterosaurs more aerodynamic. (Image: Alex Boersma) When pterosaurs took to the skies, their physique apparently offered them an...

Birds capture the appearance of plants

Birds evidently avoid not only the conspicuous caterpillars on St.Jameswort (right), but also the yellow-flowered plants themselves (left). (Images: Callum McLellan) "You should avoid...

Scientists predict potentially dramatic population displacement due to climate change

Warmer oceans will cause many plankton species to seek refuge around the poles, displacing other species, researchers suspect. The ocean is teeming with microscopic plants...

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