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These are the first drone images taken from inside a hurricane

Using a special drone vessel, researchers have captured the violence at sea caused by a hurricane. The images are impressive. The images were taken...

BepiColombo skims past Mercury tonight

The spacecraft thus gains a first glimpse of the planet that it will study intensively from 2025. Tonight at half past two BepiColombo will skim...

Corona jab and flu jab can be safely combined

This may save you a trip to the doctor in the future. Now that everyone has had the chance to be vaccinated against COVID-19, the...

Beetle with Teflon effect in the knee

The black beetle is on the move with sophisticated synovial fluid in its knee. (Photo: Konstantin Nadein) Well lubricated for animals: Researchers report on...

Scientists want to tackle ‘neglected stepchild of greenhouse gases’

It is high time that we – after CO2 – also remove methane from the atmosphere, according to American researchers. Our climate is changing and...

“Starved” galaxies in the early cosmos

Composite image (Hubble / ALMA) of the galaxy cluster MACSJ 0138, enlarged by a gravitational lens. (Image: ALMA (ESO / NAOJ / NRAO) /...

Active learning promotes memory and development

Learning mathematics with sounds - this interactive experiment helps. (Image: Sahar Coston-Hardy) How do schoolchildren and students learn best? In view of the interruption...

Can a Simple Vitamin Protect Against Alzheimer’s?

Experiments with tiny roundworms give researchers hope. Caenorhabditis elegans is a tiny worm that lives in the soil, but can also be found a lot...

When fruit flies sleep, part of their brain stays awake

New research proves that fruit flies also respond to scents in their sleep. When we humans sleep, there are really only two kinds of stimuli...

It’s now official: the infamous Vinland map is fake

The map – which suggested that the Vikings already visited the New World before Columbus – appears to date not from the fifteenth, but...

How beneficial insects keep pests at bay

Various predatory insects are the natural enemies of aphids and the like. In a research project, biologists are investigating why equilibria in field ecosystems...

Origins of photosynthesis dated

Cyanobacteria of the genus Nostoc. (Image: Elif Bayraktar / iStock) When did bacteria acquire the ability to generate energy from light and release oxygen...

The “Giant of Segorbia” and the Reconquista

The "Giant of Segorbia". (Image: University of Huddersfiel) The DNA of a man from medieval Spain sheds new light on the radicalism with which...

Dutch scientists unravel the mystery of identical twins

For the first time, researchers have found a biological cause for the birth of identical twins. And that is a breakthrough, says researcher Dorret Boomsma....

Mars helicopter refuses service and wear and tear may be the culprit

That wouldn't be very surprising; the helicopter was designed for about five flights, but has already made thirteen! The fourteenth flight was scheduled for...

Your cat needs you more than you think

Cats are known as independent and sometimes even downright aloof animals. But the evidence that they really do need their owners is mounting. The...

Artificial intelligence may help find SARS-CoV-2 successor

Which viruses should we fear and fight tooth and nail to prevent another pandemic? Scientists often find it difficult to estimate, but artificial...

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