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Social learning between bird species

Blue tit and great tit often have the opportunity to observe each other in their habitat. (Image: CathyDoi / iStock) This food tastes disgusting! This...

Featured picture: Heavenly rosettes

White swirls on a blue background: what looks like rosettes or spoked wheels are a special form of clouds. Their radiation-like patterns can only...

Animal experiments: insect nerves instead of mammals

3D view of a grasshopper embryo, colored red is the central nervous system. (Image: Hanover University of Veterinary Medicine Foundation) Up to now it has...

Magnificent Roman dagger discovered

Through the restoration, the dagger was finally pulled out of its sheath. (Photo: LWL / Eugen Müsch) He was probably the pride of a legionnaire...

Depression: hesitation shows relapse risk

Many depression patients relapse after stopping medication. (Wavebreakmedia / iStock) It would often have been better to continue treatment - the relapse rate for depression...

Earliest crossing of different types of people

Different types of early humans mated with each other (Image: 1971yes / iStock) The history of our ancestors is becoming increasingly complex. Because now, in...

Mini lizard from the early days of reptiles

Skull fossil of the newly discovered mini lizard Vellbergia bartholomaei (Image: Sobral et al. 2020 / CC-by-sa 4.0) Reptiles are a species-rich class of vertebrates:...

Bumblebees understand complexly

A bumblebee trying in the dark if they can only feel shapes but can't see them. (Photo: Lars Chittka) A round structure, no corners and edges...

Fish in the Sahara

View of the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara. (Image: Savino di Lernia, 2020) The Sahara was once a green and moist savanna. Our ancestors...

Binding protein of the new corona virus decrypted

3D structure of the spike protein from the new coronavirus Sars-CoV-2. (Image: Jason McLellan / University of Texas at Austin) In order to penetrate human...

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