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Martian flash floods

A river bed formed by a lake on Mars. (Image: THEMIS (NASA / JPL-Caltech / Arizona State University) and MOLA (NASA / GSFC...

Clues found for mysterious ‘hole’ in the very young solar system

This hole may have served as a cosmic boundary, allowing Earth-like planets to emerge on one side, while gas giants loomed in the outer...

Interesting mining food 2700 years ago

An archaeologist looks at a layer of accumulated mine debris in the Hallstatt salt mine. (Image: D. Brander / H.Reschreiter / NHMW) Food produced...

Distorted perception in the brain scanner

Illustration of the effect of an MRI scan on spatial attention: the red dots represent visual stimuli that a person increasingly perceives on the...

Rainforest heals more slowly than expected

Tree litter frog Phrynobatrachus guineensis (Image: Mark-Oliver Rödel / Museum für Naturkunde Berlin) How long does it take for a forest to recover from deforestation...

New approach to the side effects of antibiotics

How do antibiotics affect our intestinal flora? (Image: Isabel Romero Calvo / EMBL) Antibiotics not only fight pathogens, they also damage the beneficial bacteria...

Prolonged stay in space may lead to brain damage

This is evident from blood tests of five Russian cosmonauts who stayed in the International Space Station for almost six months. We know that space...

Tuberculosis deaths are on the rise for the first time in more than a decade

According to researchers, it is a worrying side effect of the introduced corona lockdowns. A prediction made by researchers at the start of the corona...

Leprosy first detected in wild chimpanzees

Although the symptoms are strikingly similar to those of people with advanced leprosy, it is still questionable whether the disease is indeed human-transmitted. Researchers have...

Earth sculpture: “The fragile paradise”

The German Aerospace Center participated in an exhibition in Oberhausen, in which a giant copy of the earth shows how nature and man shape...

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