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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The researchers followed the rate of spread of the plague through the evaluation of historical documents.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...

When does the permafrost start to thaw?

Sediment drilling in the arctic seabed. (Image: Pete Hill) The arctic permafrost stores large amounts of carbon - more than the entire atmosphere. ...

Herd immunity a “dangerous fallacy”

What can stop the pandemic? (Image: Julien Viry / iStock) In view of the increasing number of Covid 19 cases, 80 international experts have...

Effect of the “eye smile” confirmed

Behavioral research focuses on kitties: this cat "smiles" by narrowing its eyes. (Image: Prof Karen McComb University of Sussex) Cats supposedly appreciate it when...

News from the asteroid Bennu

False color image of asteroid Bennu. More weathered rocks appear blue, less weathered rocks red. (Image: NASA / Goddard, University of Arizona) In...

Featured picture: A stone curtain

What here looks like a rust-colored fabric curtain is actually solid rock. Because it is a limestone stalactite formation in the Lehman Caves...

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