The risk to fish varies depending on the hydropower plant. (Image: Angelina Tittmann)
Not every hydropower plant is equally dangerous for fish, as a...
Rhamphorhynchus - one of the 75 species of pterosaurs examined by the researchers. (Artist impression: Mark Witton)
"Aviation" further development over 150 million years:...
Writing on a papyrus from the Tebtunis Temple Library. (Image: Papyrus Carlsberg Collection)
Surprising ingredient discovered: lead apparently already ensured that writing in some...
Passive social distancing apparently inhibits the spread of disease in vampire bats. (Image: Sherri and Brock Fenton / Behavioral Ecology)
In the corona pandemic,...
Ravens are considered to be rather selfish. (Photo: Lisa Horn)
Donated corvids: The social life of birds in the Corvidae family determines their generosity,...
Icebergs off Greenland (Image: Imagebear / iStock)
Man-made climate change endangers the ice masses in the polar and mountain regions of the world. When...
When mine blasts, harbor porpoises are exposed to a high risk of injury from sound and pressure waves. (Image: BrendanHunter)
Acoustic trauma with fatal...
Award winners 2020: Martin Sorg, Annika and Hugo Sebastian Trappmann and Ottmar Edenhofer (front row) (Image: Peter Himsel / DBU)
The German Environmental Prize was...
Mucus is important for our intestinal health. (Image: magicmine / iStock)
In the intestine, a protective layer of mucus envelops the intestinal walls and...
The Milky Way and some of its globular clusters (illustration) (Image: ESA / Hubble, NASA, L. Calçada)
Billions of stars and various accumulations of matter...