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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...

The “truffles” of the bonobos

Together with the common chimpanzee, the bonobos represent our closest relatives in the animal kingdom. The truffle-like mushroom can be seen in the...

A first cell atlas of our heart

Human heart muscle cells grown from stem cells (Image: Sebastian Diecke / MDC) Our heart is a complex organ - the engine of our life....

Dust caused Betelgeuse to darken

The strong plasma eruption (left) from Betelgeuse turned into a cloud of dust that obscured the view of the star. (Image: NASA, ESA,...

Bats: Intergenerational Climate Adaptation

Great Noctule (Image: Anton Vlaschenko) Adaptation to climate change: Great noctule bat - one of the largest native bat species - shift their wintering areas...

Bird mummies: wild animals or farmed animals?

A sample is taken from a mummified buzzard. (Image: Romain Amiot / LGL-TPE / CNRS) They symbolized the gods Thoth and Horus: ibises and...

Bird brain secrets revealed

Researchers have looked into birds' brains. (Photo: Tobias Machts / University of Tübingen) On the trail of amazing bird intelligence: Two studies now shed...

Neanderthals: Replaced Y chromosomes

For the first time, the Y chromosome of Neanderthals and Denisovans could now also be examined. (Image: MPI f. Evolutionary Anthropology) New trace of...

How vaccination and immunity affect the pandemic

The further course of the corona pandemic is still open. (Image: matejmo / iStock) When it comes to predicting the future development of the...

Teamwork to success: How rats work together

One of the test rats, the colored marking facilitates their tracking in the labryinth. (Photo: Péter Palatitz / Máté Nagy) Concentrating on your own...

Secret of the Australian fairy circles revealed

The Australian fairy circles as seen from the helicopter. (Image: Stephan Getzin) Mysterious rings: In Australia's arid landscape, grasses grow naturally in...

Insight into the fossil preparation

Embedded in oil shale, they have survived for millions of years: A taxidermist explains how finds from the famous Messel mine are preserved...

Violence and bloody rituals among the steppe warriors

1700-year-old skeletons of South Siberian steppe nomads from the Tunnug 1 site. (Image: Tunnug 1 Research Project) For the ancient historians, the steppe nomads of...

Why doesn’t it get dark when you blink?

Every few seconds we blink to moisten our eyes. (laflor / istock) Actually, it should go black before our eyes every few seconds: Whenever...

Merging creates an intermediate black hole

Simulation of the gravitational waves at GW190521. (Image: LIGO / Virgo) Astronomers have already tracked dozens of black hole mergers via gravitational waves, but...

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