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How does a spider build a web? The complex ‘spider dance’ unraveled

For the first time, researchers have captured literally every step of all eight legs using artificial intelligence. Spider webs are beautiful and fascinating works of...

The CO2 budget at a glance

When it comes to climate protection, the following applies: Humankind only has a limited CO2 budget at its disposal. A video from the...

Huge gas arc appears to be colliding with our galaxy much faster

New research indicates that the gas arc is five times closer to our Milky Way than previously believed. Our solar system is located in a...

Arctic Ocean warmed up earlier than expected

Off the coast of Svalbard. (Image: Sara Giansiracusa) Man-made climate change ensures that the world's oceans are getting warmer and the poles are melting....

Our cells contain dozens of parts still unknown to us

And that may give us more insight into how human diseases arise. Most human diseases can be traced back to defective parts of a cell....

Race at the expense of the planet

More sustainability is needed. (Image: amriphoto / iStock) For a country, sustainable growth means meeting the basic needs of the population without overexploiting the...

On this planet it’s New Year’s Day every 4 o’clock

The newly discovered sweltering planet has the shortest orbit of any known gas giant. The hunt for planets beyond our solar system, meanwhile, has led...

Napola: British private schools were the model

British private schools like Eton College here were models for the Napola. (Image: Jun Zhang / iStock) The Napola boarding schools of the Third...

Cold antibodies also react to Sars-CoV-2

Coronavirus with antibodies. (Image: koto_feja / iSTock) Anyone who has antibodies against harmless, long-circulating human coronaviruses from previous colds is probably better protected against...

NASA wants to put a nuclear reactor on the moon soon

Several lightweight generators must together supply 40 kilowatts of power; enough to supply 30 households with uninterrupted electricity for ten years. Meanwhile, plans to...

NASA is going to crash a space probe on an asteroid to protect the earth

Introducing DART: an exciting space mission starting this week. Just a little while, and then the long-awaited Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission started. ...

Imperial dynasties under the spell of volcanoes

Researchers have been able to link traces of volcanic eruptions in ice cores from the last 2,000 years to developments in the history of...

Forget about green aliens in flying saucers; malicious invasions may come from unknown microbes

The era of space exploration brings new risks. Because what if the earth is infected by extraterrestrial micro-organisms, or vice versa? Hundreds of flying...

Tortoises in need of the world!

One example among many: the range of the great Asian river turtle Batagur trivittata has shrunk dramatically. (Image: Rick Hudson) “Turtles of the World”:...

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