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Social distancing among “vampires”

Passive social distancing apparently inhibits the spread of disease in vampire bats. (Image: Sherri and Brock Fenton / Behavioral Ecology) In the corona pandemic,...

How generous are corvids?

Ravens are considered to be rather selfish. (Photo: Lisa Horn) Donated corvids: The social life of birds in the Corvidae family determines their generosity,...

Additional global warming from ice melting

Icebergs off Greenland (Image: Imagebear / iStock) Man-made climate change endangers the ice masses in the polar and mountain regions of the world. When...

Dead Baltic porpoises after a mine was blown

When mine blasts, harbor porpoises are exposed to a high risk of injury from sound and pressure waves. (Image: BrendanHunter) Acoustic trauma with fatal...

The Maya already used water filters

View of the center of Tikal. (Image: Leonid Andronov / iStock) The Maya could have used an amazingly modern technology of water filtering more...

German environmental award

Award winners 2020: Martin Sorg, Annika and Hugo Sebastian Trappmann and Ottmar Edenhofer (front row) (Image: Peter Himsel / DBU) The German Environmental Prize was...

School research with fish robots

Technical replicas of fish make it clear how they save energy by swimming in a school. (Image: Dr. Liang Li, Max Planck Institute...

Intestinal flora promotes protective mucus

Mucus is important for our intestinal health. (Image: magicmine / iStock) In the intestine, a protective layer of mucus envelops the intestinal walls and...

Can sleep solve problems?

"Sleep over it first": Problems often seem to be solved overnight. (Andresr / istock) Sleep encourages creative thinking, they say. But what...

How much does the Milky Way weigh?

The Milky Way and some of its globular clusters (illustration) (Image: ESA / Hubble, NASA, L. Calçada) Billions of stars and various accumulations of matter...

Friendship also matures in monkeys with age

Similar to older people, more mature chimpanzees seem to prefer smaller, but higher quality, groups of friends. (Image: Ronan Donovan) In youth, parties with...

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...

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