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Sport despite corona virus: 8 plastic-free fitness equipment for at home

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Invasive seeds in bird feed

Bird feeding with titballs (Image: tioloco / iStock) Whether sunflower seeds, titballs or millet: Especially in winter and spring, bird feed should help our garden...

Allergy risk: protect mom’s germs

The bacterial environment in the womb apparently influences the child's later risk of allergy. (Image: Janulla / istock) Already in the womb, the course is...

Featured picture: A virus clears the air

The novel corona virus SARS-Cov-2 has been paralyzing large parts of the world for weeks. But the pandemic also has positive effects - at...

Rats smell needy fellows

Social rodents: rats are clever, compassionate and helpful. (Image: Argument / iStock) Rats apparently have a nose for hunger: the rodents use olfactory clues to...

Oldest fossil of a bilaterally symmetrical animal

This is how the ancestor of Bilateria might have looked. (Image: Sohail Wasif / University of California Riverside) What did the ancestor of all bilateria...

Mercury makes its own ice cream

Mercury North Pole with yellow ice water deposits. (Image: NASA / MESSENGER) It seems almost paradoxical: of all places, there is water ice on the...

How precise is radiocarbon dating?

There may be discrepancies in radiocarbon dating of Egyptian mummies. (Image: webking / iStock) The age determination of archaeological finds using radiocarbon dating could be...

Climate change: saving epigenetics?

Three-spined sticklebacks must be able to adjust to different salt levels in the Baltic Sea. (Image: Melanie Heckwolf / GEOMAR) Climate change is rapidly changing ecosystems...

How plants shape mountain formation

In this Mediterranean climate zone in the mountains of central Chile, vegetation and precipitation lead to comparatively heavily weathered soil profiles. (Image: Todd Ehlers) They...

Are viruses alive?

Like bizarre spaceships, virus particles are on their way to new victims. (Image: wildpixel / iStock) Coronavirus, flu and so on are living beings, many...

Hidden influx of nutrients in the Arctic

Tundra in Alaska. (Photo: Dieter Meyerl / iSTock) The frozen soil of the arctic permafrost areas is surprisingly permeable. Because groundwater also collects under these...

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