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Wrong measures aggravate coastal erosion

Maldives island. (Image: SimonSkafar / iStock) Small island states like the Maldives are severely affected by climate change and the resulting rise in sea...

How fishing affects the global carbon cycle

Fishing in the Arctic. (Image: piola666 / iStock) Up until now, discussions about the effects of industrial fishing have mostly focused on the impact...

Mars: Jezero crater was actually a lake

Jezero crater as a lake. (Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech) How life-friendly and abundant in water Mars once was is still a matter of dispute....

Mars rover Perseverance finds evidence of severe flooding on Mars

The new images also reveal where the rover can best collect new monsters. Mars rover Perseverance still haunts Jezero Crater; an area on Mars...

Scientists discover why wisdom teeth are taking so long

Most don't get them until around the age of eighteen, while they get through much earlier with our closest relative the chimpanzee. What's...

Surprisingly exotic grave goods

Exotic hunting scenes adorn an ivory comb that is around 1500 years old. (Image: BlfD) During excavations in Bavaria, archaeologists came across surprising finds...

Chinese lunar lander found to have brought two billion-year-old, ‘perfect’ lunar samples to Earth

The samples reveal, among other things, that the moon was still volcanically active more recently than previously thought. Do you remember the Chang'e 5 mission?...

Much-discussed ‘miracle pill’ against corona also causes excitement in Europe, but is that justified?

Introducing molnupiravir. Recently, the American pharmaceutical company Merck came with promising news. They turned out to be developing a surprisingly effective antiviral drug...

Photosynthesis in the clouds of Venus: that doesn’t seem such a far-fetched idea

New research suggests that sunlight slumbering through Venus' cloud cover may enable photosynthesis as we know it here on Earth. Venus is so unwelcoming at...

Pluto’s atmosphere appears to be slowly disappearing

Thanks to a passing star, scientists have been able to measure the thin atmosphere of the dwarf planet. And that shows that it...

Arctic climate research with a tethered balloon

Measurements with a tethered balloon on the coast of Ny-Ålesund on Svalbard. (Image: Sebastian Zeppenfeld / TROPOS) The lower air layers play a crucial...

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