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Where it’s about life

What can modern device medicine achieve? And what are the consequences for the patient? (Image: Tempura / iStock) 2020 was dominated by the...

Bees fight hornets with manure

Bees apply fecal stains to the hive entrance. (Image: Heather Mattila / Wellesley College) Smelly “barricades” at the entrance: Asian honeybees use collected animal...

Lens Effect reveals little vagabonds

The duration of a microlens event and the distortion of the background star enable conclusions to be drawn about the mass of a passing...

Only one native fish species left in the Arno

The sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus) immigrated to the Arno. (Image: Senckenberg / Haubrock) Invasive animal species repeatedly find their way into foreign areas and displace...

Settlement of America thanks to warm oceans

Plankton density in today's North Pacific. (Image: NASA / GSFC, SeaWiFS Project and GeoEye) The world's oceans have a significant impact on the climate...

Hope for the Tasmanian Devil

Will the Tasmanian Devils make it through the contagious tumor pandemic? (Image: JohnCarnemolla / iStock) While the Covid-19 crisis is still bothering us,...

5000 year old “place name sign” identified

The inscription made of four hieroglyphs, carved in stone (Image: Ludwig Morenz) "Domain of the Horus King Scorpio": Experts have identified a rock inscription near...

Happiness is culture dependent

Can happiness be measured across cultures? (Image: Prostock Studio / iStock) What does happiness mean? When researchers want to measure how happy people...

Featured picture: Galactic gargoyle

Galaxy contact in a class of its own: In this spectacular image from the Hubble Space Telescope, the galaxy on the right appears to...

Pterosaurs: mysterious origins illuminated

The pterosaurs were pioneers of animal aviation and, among other things, produced the greatest aviators in evolutionary history. (Image: Elenarts / Adobe Stock) From...

Climate change endangers the protection of biodiversity

Elephant in Amboseli National Park below Kilimanjaro. (Image: Almut Arneth, KIT) Climate change not only threatens the future of human societies, it also harms...

Early cell death for the 3D view

Chandelier cells (red) and the area important for three-dimensional vision (green) in the visual cortex of a mouse. (Image: Bor-Shuen Wang / Cold...

April sets the course for drought in summer

Forest in drought stress (Image: André Künzelmann / UFZ) In the last 20 years, Germany and Central Europe have experienced more summer heat and drought...

Why pandas love horse manure

A wild panda rubbed itself completely with horse manure at minus four degrees Celsius. (Image: Fuwen Wei) You wallow with pleasure in the stinking...

Emperor Franz Joseph I.

Emperor Franz Joseph I relied on micro-management and bureaucracy (Image: ÖNB) Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria left around a quarter of a million documents...

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