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Solar energy: building facades offer great potential

So far, roofs have mainly been used for photovoltaics, not facades. (Image: Behnisch et al./IÖR) Not only roofs offer space for photovoltaic systems: house facades...

Why cats love certain plants

The enthusiastic reactions of cats to catnip and the Asian silver wine could be linked to a chemical defense against mosquitoes. (Image: Masao...

Enigmatic snap device modeled

Dragonfly larvae have a trap with a dual catapult system that researchers have technically reproduced. (Right picture: Alexander Köhnsen, CAU Kiel, left picture:...

This is how Martian water becomes oxygen and fuel

There could be usable water sources on Mars for future missions. But the wetness of the red planet is problematic. (Image: dottedhippo...

Heat waves in lakes are increasing

Mountain lake in New Zealand. (Image: simonbradfield / iStock) Climate change is not only causing water temperatures to rise on land, but also in...

First lion embryos from frozen egg cells

Egg cells from an African lioness. (Image: Jennifer Zahmel / Leibniz-IZW) In order to save endangered animal species from extinction, researchers are trying to...

Reconstructed cloacal opening of a dinosaur

This is what the Psittacosaurus sewer could have looked like. (Image: Bob Nicholls / Paleocreations.com 2020) Except for mammals, most vertebrates have a cesspool...

Lungfish genome: insights into shore leave

The Australian lungfish are the closest living relative of humans in fish. (Image: Pixabay) A living fossil has revealed its genome: the genome of...

How does the immune defense work with a cold?

(picture: stock.adobe.com, sebra) Every day the body is exposed to external attacks by viruses, bacteria, fungi and other foreign substances. Then the immune system...

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