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“Plastic swallowers” ​​don’t save the seas

How well do floating garbage collectors help against plastic pollution in the oceans? (Image: Roger Spranz, ZMT / Making Oceans Plastic Free) The oceans...

How cold was the last ice age?

Much of the northern hemisphere was covered by glaciers during the last ice age. (Image: Grafissimo / iStock) Around 20,000 years ago, large parts...

Microbial space travel: explored potential

From 2015 to 2018, the tests were carried out in the exposed facility of the International Space Station. (Image: JAXA / NASA) How resilient...

Re-infection possible after recovering from Covid-19?

The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Image: creativeworks / iStrock) So far, people who have survived Covid-19 disease have been considered protected: their immune system protects them...

Ancient temples were handicapped accessible

Ruins of the Temple of Asclepius in Epidaurus. (Image: elgreko / iStock) Even the Greeks planned access to many of their sanctuaries for the...

Which bird is the loudest?

The males of the single-flap kotingas sound their females with record-loud courtship calls. (Image: Anselmo d'Affonseca) From our native singers to the exotic species...

Greenland experiences record ice loss

Icebergs and ice front of the Jakobshavn Isbræ glacier in West Greenland. (Image: Alfred Wegener Institute / Ingo Sasgen Greenland is still covered by...

As the Sahara dried up, Asia suffered too

Analyzes of stalagmite samples from caves in the north of Laos have provided geochemical indications of climatic developments in the heavily populated Asian monsoon...

Gamma ray burst from the youth of the cosmos

Afterglow of the gamma ray burst GRB181123B (circle) (Image: Travis Rector / University of Alaska Anchorage), Mahdi Zamani and Davide de Martin) Gamma ray bursts...

How fins became hands

Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) (Image: hidesy / iStock) Our hands and feet are marvels of nature. But how the precursors of these limbs developed...

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