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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...

Lizards with diving equipment

A blister on their nose allows them to breathe underwater: some American anole lizards use an amazing concept for diving, report biologists. A...

“Scrap” with purchasing power

Metal fragments like these finds from the Tollensetal in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania could have served as money in the late Bronze Age. (Photo: Volker...

Optimized vaccine production

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gly9AaytKXU A new process for inactivating “dead vaccines” enables vaccines to be produced faster, more environmentally friendly and more efficiently than before. Source: Fraunhofer

Glyphosate harms insects indirectly

Researchers have shown possible damage to symbiosis systems in insects through studies on flat grain beetles. (Photo: Backiris / iStock) The focus is mostly...

Oral flora gives insights into evolution

Tiny particles on fossil teeth can reveal insights into the history of human-microbial interactions. (Image: Werner Siemens Foundation, Felix Wey) The bacteria in our...

Model of stuttering finches

Researchers have experimentally made zebra finches stutter. (Image: thawats / iStock) Millions of people suffer from stuttering, but little is known about the causes...

Magnetic sense in the bat’s eye

Rough-skin bats probably orient themselves on their long-distance journeys using a magnetic sense located in the corneas of their eyes. (Image: Oliver Lindecke...

How Angkor has developed

Angkor Wat temple. (Image: RM Nunes / iStock) Using archaeological excavation data, historical reports and maps, and modern laser scanning results, researchers have modeled...

Private Equity: Details and Significance of Equity Capital

(Image: Stock.adobe.com, Mikael Damkier) Not only listed companies offer the possibility of participation by third parties. An increasingly important option is private equity or...

Featured picture: A chameleon with a spiked comb

Obviously, this green reptile is a chameleon. But this specimen, discovered in Ethiopia, belongs to a previously unknown species, which is noticeable, among...

How a giant planetary baby grows

Artist's impression of the growing exoplanet PDS 70b. (Image: NASA, ESA, STScI, Joseph Olmsted, STScI) A cosmic cradle in sight: Astronomers have gained insights...

The oldest burial in Africa

Reconstruction of the dead child and its bones. (Photo: Fernando Fueyo, Jorge González / Elena Santos) When did our ancestors begin to bury their...

How stickiness can betray bad guys

A T-cell (yellow) comes into contact with an antigen-presenting cell (blue). Tiny tensile forces occur on the surface, which the T cell can...

Which insects pollinate cocoa plants?

A tiny parasitic wasp visits a cocoa blossom. (Image: Manuel Toledo) Without pollinator insects, many of our crops cannot reproduce and bear fruit. ...

“Pestilence” turns out to be paratyphoid

Lübeck was apparently struck by a paratyphoid epidemic in the 14th century. (Photo: Dirk Rieger, Hanseatic City of Lübeck) What pathogens were behind the...

New data on sinus vein thrombosis

Vessels of the brain. (Image: Raycat / iStock) An evaluation by the German Society for Neurology confirms: Sinus vein thromboses are more common after...

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