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Red algae form the glue of coral reefs

Coral reef (Image: mychadre77 / iStock) Coral reefs often lie like a protective bulwark off the coast and defy even severe storms. Scientists have...

Another door opener discovered in the cell

Cell culture infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus imitation (pink). (Image: DZNE / Liliana Pedro-Domingues) In order to get into our cells, the coronavirus first has...

Featured picture: A little mouse with a viral load

Rubella is an infectious disease caused by viruses around the world, which is particularly problematic in pregnant women - as it damages the embryo...

Poorly designed flight dinosaurs

Artist's impression of Ambopteryx gliding. (Image: Gabriel Ugueto) The best concepts prevail: This principle of evolution also shaped the development history of "animal aviation"....

Monkeys understand grammar too

Chimpanzees also understand simple grammatical rules. (Image: University of Warwick) A grammatically sophisticated language is considered unique to humans. The basis for this...

On the trail of Bronze Age cattle farmers

Exposed burial mound in the Caucasus region. (Image: Anatoliy Kantarovich, DAI Eurasia Department) How did the people of the Caucasus region live in the...

Migrating bats save on their immune defense

Rough-skin bat in flight. (Image: C. Giese) Bats are known to be particularly immune to aggressive viruses. But that costs energy. Studies...

Microplastics from the baby bottle

Baby bottles give off microplastics. (Image: AMBER, Trinity College Dublin) Many infants are given the bottle in addition to or instead of the mother's...

Are planets siblings of their stars?

Stars and planets grow together, suggesting the structure of matter around a protostar that is still growing. (Image: MPE / D. Segura-Cox) A...

Why life almost disappeared once

Artist's impression of the catastrophic processes involved in the greatest mass extinction of all time. (Image: Dawid A. Iurino) Hardly anything was left of...

On the trail of the plague transmission

The researchers followed the rate of spread of the plague through the evaluation of historical documents. Shown is a record of deaths from...

Ivory Coast soon without elephants?

Forest elephants in Ivory Coast, (Image: Sery Gonedelé Bi) The region was once considered the kingdom of the forest elephants - the large populations of...

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