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Private Equity: Details and Significance of Equity Capital

(Image: Stock.adobe.com, Mikael Damkier) Not only listed companies offer the possibility of participation by third parties. An increasingly important option is private equity or...

Featured picture: A chameleon with a spiked comb

Obviously, this green reptile is a chameleon. But this specimen, discovered in Ethiopia, belongs to a previously unknown species, which is noticeable, among...

How a giant planetary baby grows

Artist's impression of the growing exoplanet PDS 70b. (Image: NASA, ESA, STScI, Joseph Olmsted, STScI) A cosmic cradle in sight: Astronomers have gained insights...

The oldest burial in Africa

Reconstruction of the dead child and its bones. (Photo: Fernando Fueyo, Jorge González / Elena Santos) When did our ancestors begin to bury their...

How stickiness can betray bad guys

A T-cell (yellow) comes into contact with an antigen-presenting cell (blue). Tiny tensile forces occur on the surface, which the T cell can...

Which insects pollinate cocoa plants?

A tiny parasitic wasp visits a cocoa blossom. (Image: Manuel Toledo) Without pollinator insects, many of our crops cannot reproduce and bear fruit. ...

“Pestilence” turns out to be paratyphoid

Lübeck was apparently struck by a paratyphoid epidemic in the 14th century. (Photo: Dirk Rieger, Hanseatic City of Lübeck) What pathogens were behind the...

New data on sinus vein thrombosis

Vessels of the brain. (Image: Raycat / iStock) An evaluation by the German Society for Neurology confirms: Sinus vein thromboses are more common after...

Inner ears reveal secrets

Inner ear model of the bird-like Hesperornis with the arches of the vestibular system above and the elongated cochlea below. (Image: Michael Hanson...

Coated paper instead of plastic packaging

Paper packaging with the coating on the inside. (Image: Fraunhofer) Environmentally friendly alternatives to plastic packaging have been sought for a long time. ...

Voices of the Holocaust survivors in focus

David P. Boder (center) was the first to record the testimonies of displaced persons. (Image: IIT Chicago / Paul V. Galvin Library) In 1946,...

Hope in the fight against lung cancer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qD90j6VqyA German researchers present promising starting points for the development of therapies in the fight against small cell lung cancer, which was previously difficult to...

Young sea turtles on the trail

Green sea turtle between Sargassum algae. (Image: Gustavo Stahelin) How do young sea turtles behave during their early days in the open sea? ...

“Risen” date palms sequenced

Left the “risen” date palm “Methuselah” and right the later “awakened” palm “Adam”. (Images: Sarah Sallon) What are the characteristics of the so-called Judean...

Notes in the first business

A baby's first shedding after birth is different from anything that follows. (Image: Coral222 / iSock) A special and surprisingly informative substance: According to...

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