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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Early bird with expensive sex appeal

On the left the fossil of Yuanchuavis kompsosoura (Image: Gao Wei) and on the right an artist's depiction of the Cretaceous bird (Image: Haozhen...

Cautious excitement among physicists: New CERN data defy the Standard Model

The data cannot be explained by our current laws of nature. There is a huge particle accelerator on the French-Swiss border – underground – the...

Scientists come up with a synthetic cell that can divide

The cell – equipped with computer-designed DNA – should provide more insight into the basic processes that underlie life. Five years ago, scientists created a...

Can this hydrogen jet make aviation really go green?

The Delft students who built the plane themselves and will send it into the air this year, fervently hope so. In 2018, the Dutch transport...

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