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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:...

The Nutrias are spreading

Nutrias also feel good in an urban environment. They differ from beavers mainly in the absence of the flattened oar tail. (Image:...

Lightning and ammonia hail on Jupiter

Illustration of high lightning bolts on Jupiter. (Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Heidi N. Becker /...

Giraffe-necked dinosaur: fossil mystery solved

Since 1852 paleontologists have speculated about the way of life of this 242 million year old dinosaur. (Image: Beat Scheffold, PIMUZ, UZH) The neck...

Sperm: This is how they really swim

Tiny messengers on behalf of life: constant movements of the tail drive sperm forward in their search for the egg - it was previously...

Hell ant attack in amber

Researchers have discovered a hell ant in an amber that snatched a prey about 99 million years ago. (Image: NJIT, Chinese Academy of...

Medieval mine tunnel discovered

Scientists in the newly discovered Johannes tunnel. (Image: Eike Bruns / LBEG) In the Upper Harz mining area, while renovating an old shaft, workers...

Zoonoses: Danger animal specified

Viruses that are potentially dangerous for us humans occur more frequently in animals in our environment. (Image: Thomas Faull / iStock) Whether Covid-19, influenza...

Humans and dogs process language similarly

Researchers study dogs' brain responses to language using functional magnetic resonance imaging. (Image: Eniko Kubinyi / Eötvös Loránd University) "Seat! You did that...

Primeval mammals ate dinosaur carrion

Paleontologists at the site of the dinosaur bone with the bite marks. (Image: Andreas Matzke) When the dinosaurs dominated the earth, most of our...

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