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Primeval shore leave with friends

Even the pioneers of plant-based shore leave could have entered into a symbiosis with mushrooms. (Illustration: Aurélie Le Ru / Mélanie Rich /...

Ice Age intercontinental exchange

When the Bering Land Bridge dried up in the Pleistocene Ice Ages, the horse populations of North America and Eurasia met and mingled. ...

What Inhibited Mammals in the Dino Era

Representatives of early mammalian lineages such as this comparatively large gobiconodon may have suppressed the development of the ancestors of modern mammals during the...

How many birds are there in the world?

Australian pigeons. (Image: Corey T. Callaghan) Birds are omnipresent and their twittering accompanies us even in the big city. But how many of...

Land use changes greater than expected

HILDA + land use map for 2019 (Image: Karina Winkler / KIT People leave their “footprint” on the earth's land through agriculture, clearing forests or...

When medicine goes to genes

A questioning look at medical genetic engineering. (Image: Natali_Mis / iStock) Healing with “genetic scissors”, therapies with “tailor-made” cells and babies with “optimized” genes:...

Radiation eruption on Proxima Centauri

Radiation outbreak near Proxima Centauri (illustration) (Image: NRAO / S. Dagnello) The red dwarf star Proxima Centauri is our closest neighbor in space, so its...

Honey bees prefer rapeseed to apple blossoms

Honey bee on a rape blossom. (Image: Albin Andersson) Oilseed rape blooms at the same time as apple trees and, like them, is mainly...

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