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Stories ensure a synchronized heartbeat

When listening to a story, the heartbeat of the listener synchronizes. (Image: comotion_design / iStock) When we listen to a story, our heart beats...

Photo worth seeing: Tracking down viral lung damage

The reddish coloration in these lung stem cells marks proteins that play an important role in late sequelae after infection with the coronavirus or...

Featured picture: The mystery of the sea dragons

This colorful animal bears the German name "Searache" because of its reptile-like shape and wing-like back appendages. In reality, it is a fish...

Featured picture: Bony beauty

This jewel-like work of art is a product of nature: it is the thin section of a bone thorn that adorned the shell of...

Snakes: Post-Disaster Careers

In contrast to the dinosaurs, the snakes were able to successfully wriggle out of the disaster. (Illustration: Joschua Knüppe) For the snakes, the asteroid...

The slave trade also brought epidemics

With the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, the slave trade began. (Image: Grafissimo / iStock) When the Europeans conquered the New World, they...

How diet affects the climate

Groceries in the supermarket. (Image: Nodar Chernishev / iStock) Our diet is an important driver of climate change: 35 percent of all man-made greenhouse...

Web spider tactics against bacteria

A macrophage kills bacteria. (3D illustration: urfinguss / iStock) The victims are tied with sticky threads, then the fatal attack follows: In order to...

“Water dragons” are picky

A jagged "mane" is the trademark of the male of the northern crested newt. (Image: Burkhard Thiesmeier) Because of local crested newts: The celebrities...

Molecular weak point of colon cancer cells discovered

Tissue section of an intestinal tumor, lipids are stained red, cell nuclei in blue. (Image: Klaus-Peter Janssen) In order to find targets for treatment...

With goats, sheep and the like against the risk of forest fires

Controlled burning of undergrowth in Sweden. (Image: Staffan Widstrand) In the face of increasing forest fires and bushfires around the world, new fire prevention...

Prehistoric primates with a cute tooth

Part of the upper jaw of Microsyops latidens with cavities. (Image: Keegan Selig) Tooth decay is not only common among humans. Researchers have...

An elephant island in sight

Ludwig Morenz in front of an illustration of the hieroglyph for the Elephantine island in the Nile. (Photo: Volker Lannert / Uni Bonn) Elephantine...

Why coasters fly badly

Aerodynamic Research of a special kind: Physicists have clarified why beer coasters cannot be thrown like frisbees, but instead fall quickly to the ground. Source:...

Andean glaciers in Peru are rapidly disappearing

View of the Artesonraju Glacier in the Cordillera Blanca in northern Peru. (Image: Dr. Christian Yarlequé / INAIGEM) The mountain glaciers of the Andes...

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