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Baby talk in bats

Sac-winged bats have a rich repertoire of social vocalizations. (Image: Clinton Harris / istock) With us, language development benefits from the typical motherly singsong....

Sars-CoV-2: Movable like a balloon on a string

Model of four spike proteins from Sars-CoV-2. Sugar deposits are marked in green. (Image: MPI for Biophysics) The prickly proteins protruding from its...

The shell of an animal “thug” unraveled

Mantis shrimp Odontodactylus scyllarus (Image: slowmotiongli / iStock) The Mantis Shrimp has one of the fastest and hardest blows in the animal kingdom. His...

How millet came to Europe

Millet Panicum miliaceum (Image: Wiebke Kirleis / UFG Kiel) Around 3500 years ago, the early cultures of Europe underwent a profound change: semi-nomads who immigrated...

Venus: Still hot-blooded

3D representations of two corona structures on Venus. The black line is a data gap. (Photo Laurent Montési, University of Maryland) The evidence...

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...

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