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Featured picture: The egg under X-ray shot

Whether hard-boiled or as a fried egg like here: eggs are part of Easter. With the help of a special X-ray technique, researchers...

First cell atlas of the Covid-19 lung

The lungs are particularly affected by Covid-19. (Image: wildpixel / iStock) The Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus causes severe pneumonia that can lead to death. A...

Resistance also in wild chimpanzees

Chimpanzee in Gombe National Park. (Image: Thomas Gillespie) Great apes are susceptible to many infectious diseases in humans, but important weapons against bacterial pathogens...

Vulnerable to crises due to social tensions

The Pueblo Indians are famous for their impressive settlement structures. (Image: Mesa Verde National Park, MEVE 11084) Droughts have so far been considered to...

Mapping the vertebrate genomes

The genome of all vertebrates is to be deciphered (Image: ELIKA, Peterschreibermedia / iStock) The Vertebrate Genome Project has set itself the goal of sequencing...

Celebrity bow tie shines with flight performance

The flying abilities of the "flies of research" were apparently underestimated. (rob_lan / iStock) They do not look particularly "sporty" when they lazily circling...

Another step to save the species

The female Fatu is one of only two surviving specimens of the northern white rhinoceros. (Image: BioRescue / Rio the Photographer) Today only two...

The beginnings of Viking metallurgy

Vikings were producing various metal alloys as early as the 8th century. (Image: homostock / iStock) The manufacture of metal alloys played an important...

Why Human Births Are Difficult

Pregnancy in humans is associated with special challenges: the pelvic floor must provide a support function, but still allow childbirth. (Image: damircudic /...

How many bubbles does a beer make?

A study provides quantitative information on bubbling in beer. (Image: LoveTheWind / iStock) It should be sparkling: Tiny carbon dioxide bubbles make beer refreshing...

Featured picture: Metal supplier to the deep sea

The lump on this shot looks like a black-brown cauliflower. In fact, there is a potentially important deep-sea metal supplier behind the strange...

First look at magnetic fields at the black hole

Light ring around M87 *, the dark lines show the polarization. (Image: EHT Collaboration) In April 2019, the first photo of a black hole...

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