Science

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...

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...

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