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Torn by three stars

Caption: The triple star system GW Orionis has a deformed planet-forming disc with an obliquely aligned ring. (Image: ESO / L. Calçada, Exeter...

Bees calibrated on sunflowers

For a high seed yield, sunflowers depend on pollinators like bees. (Image: Walter Farina) You just let them smell the desired search object: According...

Climate change threatens Komodo dragons

A Komodo dragon (Image: Achmad Ariefiandy / Komodo Survival Program) The Komodo dragon - the world's largest lizard - is already endangered today. Climate...

Phoenician wine press discovered

Reconstruction of the wine press from the 7th century BC (Image: O. Bruderer, with the kind permission of the Tell el-Burak excavation project) They...

Bird research from space

On the trail of bird decline: Researchers equip several thousand blackbirds and thrushes with small transmitters in order to record them with the satellite-based...

Featured picture: Ornate algae bloom in the Baltic Sea

Almost every year large, late summer algal blooms can be observed in the Baltic Sea: the water then turns green because countless tiny unicellular...

Europe’s forests are becoming holey

Bare forest areas due to bark beetle infestation in Saxon Switzerland. (Image: Cornelius Senf / TUM) Gaps in the canopy: More than 36 million...

Do allergies have a good root?

Artist's impression of a mast cell (center) with IgE antibodies (blue), the FcεRI receptor (red) and Staphylococcus aureus bacteria (yellow). (Image: Bobby R....

Oldest sperm discovered in the world

Shell crab fossils in 100 million year old amber (Image: He Wang & Xiangdong Zhao) An international team of paleontologists has discovered exceptionally well-preserved tiny...

Which types of bees have a lot of brains?

What are the characteristics of the brain sizes in the various bee species? (Image: ConstantinCornel / iStock) From honey bees to bumblebees to solitary...

Wreck of the German cruiser “Karlsruhe” discovered

Sonar image from the wreck of the German cruiser "Karlsruhe". (Image: Stattnet / Isurvey) On April 9, 1940, the cruiser “Karlsruhe” led the German...

The moon is rusting

Occurrence of hematite (red) on the lunar front (Image: Shuai Li) We know it from Mars and also from Earth: When iron comes into contact...

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