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Featured picture: The arctic fox: an arctic survivor

Seemingly unimpressed by the icy cold, this Siberian arctic fox looks into the camera. It is perfectly adapted to the temperatures. But...

Physicists measure the smallest gravitational force to date

Gold balls as test masses. (Image: Tobias Westphal / University of Vienna) Gravitation is formative for our universe - and yet it is elusive....

New “aging clock” developed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SSxrgq_Nyg Researchers have developed a measurement method that can determine the biological age of an organism. This could provide new insights into how the...

A cure for fakenews?

Fakenews are especially rampant on social media. (Image: B4LLS / iStock) Why do people spread fakenews? Can't you see which messages are incorrect?...

Do fish recognize each other in the mirror?

A cleaner fish looks at itself in the mirror. (Image: A. Jordan) It is considered a special ability of some highly developed animal species....

Cretaceous winged shark discovered

Artist's impression of the newly discovered “eagle shark” with a fin span of almost two meters. (Image: Oscar Sanisidro) It looks like a cross...

Artificially created early stages of human embryos

Color-tagged blastoids grown from skin cells (Image: Monash University) For the first time, researchers in the laboratory have created so-called blastoids - cell structures that...

Can air travel be CO2-neutral by 2050?

How can air travel become more climate-friendly? (Image: stellalevi / iStock) So far, air traffic has been responsible for around three percent of global...

Exoplanet in second garment?

Artist's impression of the planet GJ 1132b with what is probably the second atmosphere in its evolutionary history. (Image: NASA, ESA, and R....

Greenland: Traces of former ice melt

As in present-day East Greenland, most of the vast island was probably covered by tundra at least once in the last million years. ...

Antikythera Mechanism planet indicator unraveled

New reconstruction of the Antikythera Mechanism (Image: 2020 Tony Freeth) The Antikythera Mechanism, discovered in an ancient shipwreck in 1901, is considered to be the...

Weeping lacrimal glands from the laboratory

Cross-section through the lacrimal organoid of a mouse. (Image: Yorick Post / Hubrecht Institute) In order to keep our eyes moist and to protect...

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