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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...

Limit the promotion of fossil fuels more strongly

Lignite mining in open-cast mining. (Image: claffra / iStock) In order to meet the 1.5 degree climate target, the promotion of fossil fuels must...

Clever pig feeding: individual & ecological

In the RESAFE-Pig project, researchers are developing a sophisticated technical solution for needs-based pig feeding that enables resource and environmentally friendly husbandry. Source: TiHoVideos

The Brandenburg Evangelistary

Around the year 1210, highly specialized illuminators in the archbishopric city of Magdeburg created an Evangelistary on behalf of the Premonstratensians of the newly...

How lung cancer develops in non-smokers

What are the mutations behind non-smoking lung cancer? (Image: National Cancer Institute) Smoking is the number one cause of lung cancer, and most research...

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