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Fascination with astronomy at experimenta

Everyone can get to the telescope here. (Source: experimenta) A very special observatory: the all-sky dome on the roof of experimenta Heilbronn offers visitors to...

On the trail of the oxygen signature

This is what an oxygen-rich exoplanet could look like. (Image: NASA / GSFC / Friedlander-Griswold) Is there any life out there? A new method could...

TESS finds the first habitable earth twin

This is how the life-friendly, earth-sized Exoplanet TOI-700 d could look. (Image: NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center) He is the new NASA planet hunter:...

Sparkling environmental problem

This scenery looks idyllic only at first glance. Because what so glitters green around a coral through the water here is a sign of...

Giant wave in the Milky Way

This illustration shows the location and extent of the Radcliffe wave in the Milky Way. (Image: Alyssa Goodman / Harvard University) Although the Milky Way...

“Hot Jupiter” on a spiral course

The Exoplanet WASP-12b approaches its star in a spiral orbit. (Image: NASA / JPL-Caltec) A hot gas giant orbits its star in extreme proximity at...

Ancient stardust in the meteorite

A few micrometers small granules from a meteorite (detail) turned out to be presolar star dust. (Image: NASA, W. Sparks (STScI) / R. Sahai...

Early medieval attic find

Discovered by chance in the attic: a sax and a spearhead from the late 7th century. (Image: University of Innsbruck) Archaeological treasures do not...

Apes know if you know

What do others know, what do they think and how will this affect their actions? Not only we humans can put ourselves in the...

The symbolic birds of love in the spotlight

Their intimate pair behavior has made the lovebirds famous. (Photo: NABU / R. Thierfelder) "They are like two lovebirds", it is said - but where...

Bouncing bubbles drive micro-submarines

Powerful tiny things, precisely controllable: Nanotechnologists have developed sophisticated micro-floats that can arrange silicate spheres into letters, push cells into position and even climb...

Like bees “surfing”

With their wings, bees create waves in the water to move. (Image: Chris Roh and Mory Gharib / Caltech) Honeybees have many special talents. The...

Over 100 and not a bit forgetful

Biologist Tamar Gutnick scratches "George" in the Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna. (Image: OIST) They are famous for their slowness and longevity - giant turtles, on the...

Tool use discovered in seabirds

The trademark of the puffins is their colorful beak (Image: ps50ace / istock) They use stick or stone specifically for their purposes: tool use is...

Blood flow filmed all over the body

It swirls through the heart and then flows to all organs and parts of the body: How the blood flows through the veins of...

Literally cool butterfly wings

Infrared images of butterflies: The bright areas are linked to the ability to cool radiation. (Image: Nanfang Yu and Cheng-Chia Tsai / Columbia Engineering) Butterfly...

Cyborg jellyfish for marine research

Artist's impression of the technically upgraded jellyfish. (Image: Rebecca Konte / Caltech) Put in turbo gear: Researchers have equipped jellyfish with a kind of pacemaker...

How the life element phosphorus came to earth

Astronomers have followed the journey of phosphorus from star formation to comets by combining data from ALMA and the Rosetta probe. (Photo: ALMA (ESO...

Ultrafast microscope for the quantum world

The combination of ultra-short laser pulses (red) with a scanning tunneling microscope makes quantum processes visible like an electronic wave packet (colored) with atomic...

Star embryo with hot flashes

Artist's impression of a protostar that accretes and grows gas from a circumstellar disk. (Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech, R. Hurt / SSC) Massive stars do...

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