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2000 year old basilica was once the largest in Israel

View of the former location of the basilica. (Image: Emil Aladjem / Israel Antiquities Authority) The Israeli city of Ashkelon was an important trading...

Tracking down immunodeficiency in astronauts

worthlessness is associated with health costs. (Image: Georgethefourth / iStock) Unhealthy levitation: A stay in weightlessness weakens, among other things, the resistance of the...

Featured picture: A crocodile with horns

This skull comes from an extinct crocodile that has long puzzled researchers. The reptile, once native to Madagascar, resembled the Nile crocodiles in...

Urbanization winners and losers

The Kleine Maivogel (left) came up last among the 158 species examined for urban affinity and is likely to continue to decline in Europe....

Mysterious shark dying

Microfossils provide evidence of an enigmatic mass extinction in sharks. (Illustration: Leah Rubin) A bang in the history of sharks is emerging: around 19...

How the reformatory got into print

As is well known, printing was of central importance for the course of the Reformation. A historian sheds light on the role played...

How the DNA opens

DNA (yellow) and the tails (colored) of the histones (white) moving in the course of four microseconds. (Image: Jan Huertas, Vlad Cojocaru /...

What lives in the washing machine?

If freshly washed laundry smells musty, bacteria have spread to the machine. (Image: NARIN EUNGSUWAT / iStock) Hardly anything is really “clean” - many...

“Sea snow” influences the nitrogen cycle

Sea snow: tiny particles of organic material. (Image: C. Karthäuser and S. Ahmerkamp / MPI for Marine Microbiology) In the productive zones of the...

Featured picture: Powerful crab larva

This crab larva is only two millimeters in size and is still largely transparent. But that doesn't mean she's defenseless: her tentacles, which...

Trace of a surprisingly young eruption

The dark area around a crevice in the Cerberus Fossae system is probably the trace of a surprisingly recent eruption. (Image: CREDITNASA /...

On the trail of the secret of the green Sahara

After rare rainfall, green is still sprouting in the Sahara today. (Image: Rachid Cheddadi) Where the sun burns on the bare ground today, a...

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