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Laughing gas for severe depression

Depression can become life-threatening. New treatment options are in demand. (Image: cindygoff / iStock) Hope for previously hopeless cases: a one-hour treatment with...

It’s getting tight for the great apes

Chimpanzees like this one could lose large parts of their habitats. (Image: Pascal Gagneux / GMERC) Whether chimpanzees, bonobos or gorillas: the African great...

Cretaceous live snail birth

99 million year old birth scene in amber: a snail and its five young animals. (Image: Tingting Yu) When it was just giving birth...

Tiny “ice mummies” revived

Rotifers are tiny multicellular organisms that can also live in soil. (Image: Michael Plewka) They survived the freezing and then about 24,000 years in...

Algal blooms are becoming more serious

Algal bloom in the Baltic Sea, recorded by the Sentinel-3A satellite. (Image: ESA) From time to time, huge carpets of algae spread out in...

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...

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