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Skin teeth tell a shark-human story

False color scanning electron microscope images of denticles. The characteristics of the tiny skin teeth vary in sharks with different lifestyles. (Image:...

Misappropriated conquistadors objects

These objects were created by the Chickasaw from a chain link, a piece of horseshoe and hatchets. (Image: Florida Museum / Jeff Gage) In...

Lifespan: 130 years are possible

The limit of life expectancy is shifting further back. (Image: ivanastar / iStock) Advances in medicine and technology enable us humans to live to...

Active ingredient from chestnut leaves against MRSA

Leaves and flowers of the sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa). (Image: Quave Lab) The leaves of the European sweet chestnut are considered a traditional remedy...

Threatened “sea ice refuge”

The "Last Ice Area" is a haven for polar bears and co. (Image: Kristin Laidre / University of Washington) For polar bears and co. It...

Betelgeuse: blackout puzzle solved

One of the brightest stars in the firmament suddenly lost its shine: The collapse in brightness of Betelgeuse in late 2019 to early 2020...

Corona monitoring in wastewater

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbczxvT8Cx4 German researchers are exploring the possibility of determining the degree of infection of the population with Sars-CoV-2 through genetic traces of the viruses in...

Monkeys too have to learn to communicate first

Common marmosets (Image: Manfred Eberle / German Primate Center GmbH) People first have to learn to speak - in the first few years of life...

Lost Palatinate reveals secrets

Archaeologists uncover what was previously slumbering in the farmland. (Aerial photo of the excavation area: State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt,...

Plague infection 5000 years ago

This jaw belonged to a man who probably succumbed to an infection with Yersinia pestis around 5,000 years ago. (Photo: Dominik Göldner, BGAEU,...

On the trail of elephant rises and falls

The trunk animals once had an enormous biodiversity. (Illustration: Oscar Sanisidro) Today only three species are left - but once there was an enormous...

Plastic waste: the consequences could be irreversible

Plastic waste is a global problem. (Image: Caroline Hansen, Heidi Knutsen / NGI) Plastic waste drifts in huge carpets on the oceans, accumulates as...

Astronauts cut with gene scissors

NASA astronaut Christina Kock performing the experimental procedure on board the International Space Station. (Image: Sebastian Kraves) The famous CRISPR / Cas9 technology has...

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