Social rodents: rats are clever, compassionate and helpful. (Image: Argument / iStock)
Rats apparently have a nose for hunger: the rodents use olfactory clues to...
This is how the ancestor of Bilateria might have looked. (Image: Sohail Wasif / University of California Riverside)
What did the ancestor of all bilateria...
There may be discrepancies in radiocarbon dating of Egyptian mummies. (Image: webking / iStock)
The age determination of archaeological finds using radiocarbon dating could be...
Three-spined sticklebacks must be able to adjust to different salt levels in the Baltic Sea.
(Image: Melanie Heckwolf / GEOMAR)
Climate change is rapidly changing ecosystems...
The corona virus presents many companies with challenges - especially smaller companies fear for their existence. A baker shows how stressful the situation is...
In this Mediterranean climate zone in the mountains of central Chile, vegetation and precipitation lead to comparatively heavily weathered soil profiles. (Image: Todd Ehlers)
They...
Like bizarre spaceships, virus particles are on their way to new victims. (Image: wildpixel / iStock)
Coronavirus, flu and so on are living beings, many...
Tundra in Alaska. (Photo: Dieter Meyerl / iSTock)
The frozen soil of the arctic permafrost areas is surprisingly permeable. Because groundwater also collects under these...
A vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 is searched worldwide (Image: chval / iStock)
While countries around the world are fighting Covid-19 and the further spread of the...
Water: a vital resource for people, animals and plants (Image: Yevgeniy Sambulov / istock)
For this year's World Water Day on March 22nd, the United...