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Entanglement in slavery revealed

Many structures and masterminds made the international human crime of slavery possible. (Image: Historical illustration of a slave ship, Grafissimo / istock) The example...

How cells organize into organisms

How does a clump of cells become an embryo? (Image: iLexx / iStock) During embryonic development, a single fertilized egg cell forms an entire...

Fungal virus turns enemy into friend

A harmful fungus reduces the yields of the rapeseed fields. (Image: kritsada171 / iStock) Fungi can also catch viruses, and this can have amazing...

A Milky Way analogue in the early cosmos

The light of the galaxy SPT0418-47 is distorted by the gravitational lens effect and appears as a nearly perfect ring of light. (Image:...

The value of natural capital at a glance

To what extent can values ​​be assigned to the services of nature? The environmental economist Bernd Hansjürgens from the Helmholtz Center for Environmental...

A quarter of all carnivorous plants are threatened

Examples of threatened carnivorous plants. (Image: Robinson / Krueger / Fleischmann) A quarter of all carnivorous plant species are threatened with extinction worldwide, according...

Stratification of the oceans is getting stronger

Two water masses meet here in the ozone, but vertical stratifications are much more important. (Image: Jiang Zhu) The oceans are important actors in...

Dispute over pterosaur “feathers”

How far back did the evolution of the spring go back? Whether the pterosaurs also had archetypes of this structure plays an important...

Locusts navigate with a double solar compass

Desert locust with an indicated polarization pattern of the sunlight. (Image: Keram Pfeiffer) Desert locusts sometimes migrate several hundred kilometers. As researchers have...

Featured picture: Glittering fat crystals

The green rhinestones in the photo are anything but valuable: They are so-called fat crystals. In the human body, they can trigger chronic...

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