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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...

Why not all tropical forests are equally rich in species

Toucan in the Amazon rainforest. (Image: agustavop / iStock) The tropical rainforests are hotspots of biodiversity, but there are differences. Researchers have now...

Hope in the fight against bee virus

Bees have to find their way back to the hive after their excursions - an ability that can affect a viral disease. (Image:...

Thanks to a clever trick, monogamous skink can still give birth to other men’s children with impunity

Researchers discovered this by accident. the tree skink (Egernia striolata) is usually monogamous. Females only mate with their mate. Together they have offspring....

Let’s hunt for exomoons around orphan planets

Planets roaming space without a parent star may not be as lonely as thought. They can sometimes harbor moons. And we can spot some...

Volcanic eruptions promoted the rise of the dinosaurs

230 million years ago, a wet climate could have favored the rise of the dinosaurs. (Image: University of Birmingham / pixabay) During the late...

Primeval form of poultry farming?

Are cassowaries ancient human farm animals? (Image: Andy Mack) Millennia before the domestication of chickens and the like: residents of the island of New...

Pandemic has a major impact on life expectancy

Some countries have not seen life expectancy decline as sharply since World War II as it is today due to COVID-19. According to a new...

Light pollution has increased by at least 49 percent in 25 years

And that's still a conservative estimate; in reality, global light pollution may have increased by 270 percent(!) in a quarter of a century. British...

Eagle look at stressed trees

Even forest trees that appear healthy to the naked eye can already suffer from stress. (Image: ViktorCap / iStock) Subtle stress signals made visible:...

Closer view of shadow craters

The 17 newly investigated shaded craters and depressions are located near the south pole of the moon. (Image: MPS / University of Oxford...

Photo worth seeing: Sibling love among elephants

Only children have a harder time - this also applies to Asian elephants like these wrangling young animals. If the elephant calves have...

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