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The world’s longest cave just got longer this month

The cave turns out to be almost 13 kilometers longer than expected. The famous Mammoth Cave, located in the US state of Kentucky, is the...
Charlie Elliott -
History & Archaeology

Bodies of 25 Crusaders Discovered in Lebanon

The bodies give us a unique insight into what happened during the bloody battle for the Lebanese city of Sidon. During the Crusades – which...
Charlie Elliott -
Biology

Loss of biodiversity in literature

How did the literary treatment of living beings change parallel to the real extinction of species? (Image: Gabriele Rada / iDiv) Oak, beech, fir...
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Astronomy

First fully manned space flight ends with a splash, but is also the prelude to more

The four crew members of the Inspiration4 mission are safely back on Earth, where countless other space tourists are eager to follow suit. After three...
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Health & Medicine

‘Eating too much is not the main cause of obesity’

According to researchers, it's actually the other way around: the process of gaining weight causes us to get hungry and therefore eat too much. The...
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Earth & Climate

How it crashed in the solar system

The inferno kept coming: devastating impacts shaped the history of the earth. (Image: solarseven / iStock) When celestial bodies became cosmic bombs: In the...
Ashton Edwards -
Health & Medicine

Cognitive dissonance: this has to do with sustainability

Cognitive dissonance describes the uncomfortable feeling when you don't get your ideas and your actions under one roof. We'll explain how you can...
Willy Lewis, M.D. -
Earth & Climate

With at least 100,000 fatalities per year, the venomous snake bite is a major and underexposed problem

But Dutch researchers, among others, are working hard on a solution. You can regularly read in the newspaper that people are being attacked by sharks....
Charlie Elliott -
History & Archaeology

DAMALS podcast, episode 29: The Delta Project

The Dutch have struggled with the sea since the Middle Ages. Over the centuries, they have been plagued by disastrous flood disasters. ...
Alan Cannon -
Earth & Climate

Photo worth seeing: Dangerous roads

These chimpanzees manage to cross the jungle road in Guinea unmolested. But for many of their conspecifics, the roads built into the forests...
Elijah Burt -
Health & Medicine

Counting Calories: Helpful Strategy or Unhealthy Compulsion?

Counting calories is still considered a helpful weight loss strategy. Here you can find out exactly how the technology works, what advantages and...
Willy Lewis, M.D. -
Earth & Climate

Corona crisis is not the breakthrough that the climate needs so badly

Emissions are rising again. And the 'green recovery' that many hoped for after this far-reaching crisis is nowhere to be seen. When the corona...
Charlie Elliott -
Astronomy

Planet X may be closer than thought

But that still doesn't make it obvious that we'll be spotting the planet anytime soon. That can be read in a new study which has...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

Climate change endangers the basis of the polar food web

Researchers take phytoplankton samples from the Arctic Ocean. (Photo: Katrin Schmidt) Depending on the temperature of the sea water, the plankton in the oceans...
Ashton Edwards -
Biology

What happens to the microplastics in the soil?

How do plastic particles behave in the soil? (Image: Gabriel Sigmund / EDGE) In agriculture, large amounts of nano and microplastics get into the...
Elijah Burt -
History & Archaeology

Lost text of antiquity discovered

Analysis of a parchment with hidden remains of writing: Modern image processing methods make the original Greek text (red) visible. It was erased...
Alan Cannon -
Earth & Climate

An unusually large hole in the ozone layer appears to be forming over the South Pole right now

The hole is already bigger than Antarctica itself. The ozone layer is located in the stratosphere – at an altitude of about 40 kilometers. ...
Charlie Elliott -
History & Archaeology

Bones discovered in Morocco cautiously suggest that our ancestors were already making clothes 120,000 years ago

The processing of leather and fur may have played an important role in early humans' ability to migrate to colder parts of the world...
Charlie Elliott -
Health & Medicine

When people listen carefully to a story together, their hearts start beating in sync

Their heartbeats appear to speed up or slow down at the same points during the story. We have known for some time that under certain...
Dr. Hayden Miller -
Biology

Plant evolution took place in two stages

Individual parts of the flower of an African lily (Agapanthus africanus). (Image: Andrew Leslie) Plants today are of great diversity and complexity. It...
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