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Featured picture: A top class catch

The “Glanzlichter 2020” photo competition is the largest international nature photo competition in Germany and has been advertised annually since 1999. A jury...

Why the top venomous spider is so toxic

The bite from an Australian funnel-web spider can be fatal. (Image: Dr David Wilson) On the trail of deadly potential: Researchers have clarified why...

Chimpanzee Orphans: Shaded Life

The loss of the mother can also have far-reaching consequences for the life of the orphaned chimpanzee. (Image: Liran Samuni, Taï Chimpanzee Project) The...

Man reached Arabia 120,000 years ago

The first human footprint discovered at Lake Alathar and the corresponding digital elevation model (Image: Stewart et al., 2020) The Arabian Peninsula forms a bridge...

How hallucinogens work in the brain

Serotonin receptor with accumulated hallucinogen, left cryo-electron microscope image, right illustration. (Image: Skiniotis Lab, Stanford / Roth Lab, UNC-Chapel Hill) Drugs like LSD and...

Viking genetics unraveled

Many Vikings were likely more brunette than blonde. (Image: Jim Lyngvild) The Vikings have decisively shaped the history of Europe. But who were...

Functional shift in early childhood

The importance of sleep changes in toddlerhood. (Image: dragana991 / iStock) Why do we need so much sleep and babies? Researchers are now...

Torn by three stars

Caption: The triple star system GW Orionis has a deformed planet-forming disc with an obliquely aligned ring. (Image: ESO / L. Calçada, Exeter...

Bees calibrated on sunflowers

For a high seed yield, sunflowers depend on pollinators like bees. (Image: Walter Farina) You just let them smell the desired search object: According...

Climate change threatens Komodo dragons

A Komodo dragon (Image: Achmad Ariefiandy / Komodo Survival Program) The Komodo dragon - the world's largest lizard - is already endangered today. Climate...

Phoenician wine press discovered

Reconstruction of the wine press from the 7th century BC (Image: O. Bruderer, with the kind permission of the Tell el-Burak excavation project) They...

Bird research from space

On the trail of bird decline: Researchers equip several thousand blackbirds and thrushes with small transmitters in order to record them with the satellite-based...

Featured picture: Ornate algae bloom in the Baltic Sea

Almost every year large, late summer algal blooms can be observed in the Baltic Sea: the water then turns green because countless tiny unicellular...

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