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How climate change affects crops

Projected changes in global crop yields. (Image: NASA / Katy Mersmann) Warmer temperatures, changed precipitation patterns and more CO2 in the atmosphere: Climate change...

The Celts and Romans already operated mining in the Montafon

View of the Montafon valley and excavations at the western end of the Knappagruaba. (Image: Rüdiger Krause / Goethe University Frankfurt) Ores were mined...

Dogs learn to recognize individual words in a word stream in the same way that humans do

It means that certain neural mechanisms involved in the acquisition of human language may not be so uniquely human after all… Have you ever told...

On the trail of cosmic bombardment

In one of the lunar rock samples, the metal inclusions are visible, which come from former asteroid impacts. (Image: AG Kleine) Did changes in...

Scientists ‘smell’ Amsterdam nanoplastics in the pristine high Alps

A very unpleasant surprise. Some time ago, an international team of researchers – including scientists from Utrecht University – traveled to the high Alps to...

About “hot ice” and planetary magnetic fields

The water-rich planet Uranus has an unusual magnetic field. (Image: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio) Ice of the bizarre kind: Researchers have gained new insights...

Sea levels are now rising twice as fast as they were in the 1990s

A new report from the World Meteorological Organization makes it clear: Climate change is currently transforming our planet before our very eyes. At the moment,...

The world’s first 3D-printed steel bridge is now in Amsterdam

It's living science. Everyone who walks, runs or cycles across the bridge contributes to the collection of important information about the construction. It is...

No shot, but still getting vaccinated: that seems possible in the future

Researchers have successfully developed a 'patch' with which people can still be vaccinated against COVID-19 in a pain-free and needle-free way. Some people have shivers...

Condor reproduces virginally (despite fertile males also being around)

It is the first time that researchers have discovered that California condors can apparently also reproduce in this special way. It's an extraordinary discovery: condors...

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