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Featured picture: Beirut in ruins

The capital of Lebanon, Beirut, is located right on the Mediterranean coast and also includes the country's main port. It is estimated that...

This is the best way for tropical forests to recover

Seeds from tree species are collected and raised in pristine forests in order to obtain planting material for restoration measures. (Image: Michael O'Brien...

Stone Age people: wisely bedded early

Around 200,000 years ago, people apparently camped on grass in the Border Cave in South Africa's Lebombo Mountains. (Image: A. Kruger) Even more than...

Blue algae blooms in the Baltic Sea: heat more important than nutrients

Nodularia spumigena is the most common cyanobacteria species in the central Baltic Sea. (Image: Susanne Busch / IOW) Again and again there is mass...

Tracking down the roots of syphilis

Analysis of old DNA samples in the laboratory. (Image: UZH) According to popular belief, the sailors around Christopher Columbus brought syphilis to Europe. ...

Can Bad Dreams Be Good?

Fear in a dream can be useful. (Image: Sergey Nivens / istock) Thank god just a dream! Anyone who experiences anxious situations while...

An ancient stream of stars

Illustration of the phoenix star stream (Image: Geraint F. Lewis / S5 Collaboration) The fringes of the Milky Way also include numerous globular clusters -...

Focus on rainforest fires

They are destroying precious rainforest: what about the fires in the Amazon region? A video from the Max Planck Society deals with this...

Why did the woolly rhinoceros die out?

Apparently humans were not responsible for the extinction of the horned steppe dweller. (Image: Fedor Shidlovskiy) For millennia they trudged through the icy landscapes...

Discovered the scent of enthusiasm

Swarms of locusts can devour entire areas of land. (Image: ruvanboshoff / iStock) When it comes to this odorous substance, locusts literally go into...

Medieval poet: “rounded” anniversary

Walther von der Vogelweide (left) and Wolfram von Eschenbach (right) were both born around 1170. (Image: Excerpts from the Heidelberger Liederhandschrift (Codex Manesse),...

Intensive land use affects pollination

The Battus philenor butterfly is one of the most important pollinator insects for plants. (Image: Amibeth Thompson) Intensive land use by humans affects the...

With multifocal contact lenses against myopia

http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.10834 Nearsightedness occurs when a child's eyeball grows too much - and the level of sharpest vision is therefore in front of the retina. ...

REM sleep shapes eating behavior

REM sleep is an important phase of healthy sleep. (Image: Adene Sanchez / iStock) We dream and our brain works intensely: REM sleep apparently...

Freshwater crabs in the hottest place on earth

The new type of cancer Phallocryptus fahimii (Image: M. Pallmann / SMNS) Life can be found even in the most extreme places on earth -...

Investigated sunken submarine from the First World War

High-resolution sonar image of the UC-47 submarine. (Image: Tolmount Development) In November 1917, the long streak of luck of the German submarine UC-47 ended:...

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