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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...

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

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