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Industrialization dust reached the Himalayas

View over the peaks of the central Himalayas. (Image: Bim / iSTock) Humans have long left their mark in almost all regions of the world...

Tank-bearing giant

Reconstruction of the giant tortoise Stupendemys geographicus. (Image: Jaime Chirinos) Turtles are a successful model of evolution - they have existed for 220 million years...

Dinosaurs regulated their body temperature

Researchers have used fossil egg shells as a "thermometer". (Image: Erika Parfenova / iStock) Were the dinosaurs cold-blooded like reptiles or warm-blooded like birds and...

Mediterranean area dries out faster

View of the coast of the Greek island of Santorini (Image: spooh / iStock) Many regions of the Mediterranean are already suffering from increasing drought....

What color were dino eggs?

Bird eggs and dinosaur egg (right) (Photo: Jasmina Wiemann / Yale University) They are speckled in blue, whitish or brown - there is a well-known...

Why are ears so knobbly?

The ear structures serve to locate sound sources. (Image: Pixsooz / iStock) They are big, small, pointed, long. But all human ears have one characteristic...

Does music really help with training?

Does music have the same effect as permitted doping in sports? (Image: vgajic / iStock) Headphones are part of training for many people, like sports...

How many faces do we know?

On average, people have 5000 faces in their heads. (Image: PeopleImages / iStock) Friends, neighbors, colleagues, celebrities ... Our lives and the media are teeming...

What does weekend sleep bring?

Sufficient sleep is important - every day. (Image: andresr / iStock) Many people sleep too little on weekdays - and then catch up on...

Fascination with astronomy at experimenta

Everyone can get to the telescope here. (Source: experimenta) A very special observatory: the all-sky dome on the roof of experimenta Heilbronn offers visitors to...

On the trail of the oxygen signature

This is what an oxygen-rich exoplanet could look like. (Image: NASA / GSFC / Friedlander-Griswold) Is there any life out there? A new method could...

TESS finds the first habitable earth twin

This is how the life-friendly, earth-sized Exoplanet TOI-700 d could look. (Image: NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center) He is the new NASA planet hunter:...

Sparkling environmental problem

This scenery looks idyllic only at first glance. Because what so glitters green around a coral through the water here is a sign of...

Giant wave in the Milky Way

This illustration shows the location and extent of the Radcliffe wave in the Milky Way. (Image: Alyssa Goodman / Harvard University) Although the Milky Way...

“Hot Jupiter” on a spiral course

The Exoplanet WASP-12b approaches its star in a spiral orbit. (Image: NASA / JPL-Caltec) A hot gas giant orbits its star in extreme proximity at...

Ancient stardust in the meteorite

A few micrometers small granules from a meteorite (detail) turned out to be presolar star dust. (Image: NASA, W. Sparks (STScI) / R. Sahai...

Early medieval attic find

Discovered by chance in the attic: a sax and a spearhead from the late 7th century. (Image: University of Innsbruck) Archaeological treasures do not...

Apes know if you know

What do others know, what do they think and how will this affect their actions? Not only we humans can put ourselves in the...

The symbolic birds of love in the spotlight

Their intimate pair behavior has made the lovebirds famous. (Photo: NABU / R. Thierfelder) "They are like two lovebirds", it is said - but where...

Bouncing bubbles drive micro-submarines

Powerful tiny things, precisely controllable: Nanotechnologists have developed sophisticated micro-floats that can arrange silicate spheres into letters, push cells into position and even climb...

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