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Did milk make you mobile?

Tartar served as a source of information for studying the Bronze Age diet. (Image: Egor Kitov, Samara Valley Project) Traces in the tartar have...

How cold-tolerant was Homo sapiens?

Excavations in the Bacho Kiro cave in Bulgaria. (Photo: Tsenka Tsanova / MPI-EVA Leipzig, CC-BY-SA 2.0) The first groups of Homo sapiens reached Europe...

On the trail of dog jealousy

An animal subject lies in the MRI scanner and watches videos. (Image: Karin Bayer / Clever Dog Lab) Many dog ​​owners can confirm that...

This roundworm has no ears, but can hear

This is the view of American researchers who previously discovered that the same roundworm, despite not having eyes, can detect light. That can be read...

Huge spherical void discovered in space

An exploding star punched a hole in space nearly 500 light-years ago 10 million years ago. And strangely enough, we never noticed that enormous emptiness....

Lignite: East German power plants will be uneconomical even before 2030

Lignite power plant in Lusatia. (Image: reidecki / iStock) So far, the federal government's climate roadmap provides for a coal phase-out by 2038, and...

For astronomers, autumn starts tonight, but for meteorologists, autumn has already begun

Tonight at 9:21 p.m., autumn begins for astronomers. However, meteorologists have been in it for weeks. For meteorologists, autumn has already begun. They...

Mars may be too small for Martians

The habitability of Mars may be severely limited by the planet's small size. Water is one of the most important ingredients for life as we...

Afraid of spiders? Your smartphone can help!

Scientists have a augmented realityapp developed with which people with arachnophobia can tackle their fear. And that app works! Spider fear or arachnophobia is...

NASA sends a rover to Nobile crater on the moon’s south pole

The rover will search here – in one of the coldest regions in our solar system – for a particularly valuable raw material: ice....

Is the ‘placebo effect’ just a myth?

Some people deliberately take placebo pills in the belief that they will get them better. But researchers warn against this risky development. Many people...

How bacteria “zombify” plants

A test plant under the spell of the manipulative active ingredient of phytoplasms forms a bushy structure known as a witch's broom. (Image:...

From the Judas kiss to whistleblowing

The Judas kiss from the Bible is considered the ultimate betrayal. (Image: ZU_09 / iStock) Regardless of whether it is regicide, whistleblowing or shouts...

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