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What helps against alcohol hangover

A mixture of plant extracts can apparently provide less headache and nausea after drinking alcohol. (Image: Traitov / iStock) Grumble, nausea ... and the mood...

Enough space for wolves

Wild wolf (Image: Heiko Anders) Wolves have been back in Germany for over 20 years and their number is slowly increasing. But how much space...

Corona pandemic: wastewater monitoring

Waste water samples could reveal the degree of infection of the population. (Photo: Jürgen Lösel) The relaxation of the pandemic-related restrictions harbors the risk that...

Exoplanet turns out to be a collision cloud

Artist's impression of the collision in the system of the star Fomalhaut. (Image: ESA, NASA and M. Kornmesser) It was considered to be one of...

Mysterious finds in Lake Constance

A Bronze Age skull find in Lake Constance. (Image: Tobias Pflederer, Bavarian Society for Underwater Archeology e.V.) Was there a hitherto unknown settlement on the...

Climate change: wet self-reinforcement

A river from the Ganges catchment area. Increased rainfall in the tropics could increase global warming by increasing the release of CO2 from the...

Biofuel for the ship’s tank

Ship emissions are a major environmental problem. (Image: danaibe12 / iStock) Whether cruise ship, freighter or ferry: So far, shipping has been anything but environmentally...

Desert microbes turn rocks into water

Electron microscope image of cyanobacteria living in gypsum rocks from the Atacama desert. (Image: Wei Huang) Not a drop of water and yet there is...

Herbal suction power puzzles solved

Lipids in the conductor tracks limit the negative pressure potential. (Photo: Matej Kanduč, Jožef-Stefan Institute, Ljubljana) The more you suck on a drinking straw, the...

Coronavirus also affects intestinal cells

Cells infected by Sars-CoV-2 in the intestinal organoid (white) (Image: Joep Beumer / Hubrecht Institute) There has been increasing evidence that the coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 can...

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