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Pollinator: Ozone spoils the scent of flowers

Tobacco enthusiasts can be attracted by the scent of flowers and float in the air while drinking. (Anna Schroll) Plants show pollinators the way...

Are crabs “stupid”?

A common animal on the coasts of Europe: the beach crab. (Image: Ed Pope) We know them from holidays by the sea: beach crabs...

Europeans have only tolerated milk for a few thousand years

Bronze Age skull from the Tollensetal (Image: Stefan Sauer / Tollensetal-Projekt) In today's northern and central Europe, most people can still digest the milk sugar...

Featured picture: Master of Disguise

That many frogs and toads are greenish or brownish in color does not seem surprising - this color makes them almost invisible in their...

Mega shark: proportions modeled

The comparison of the dorsal fin with a diver shows how big the shark's trademark on the megalodon could have been. (Image: Oliver...

Harmful fungus threatens columbines in Europe

Columbine plant affected by Peronospora aquilegiicola. (Image: Thomas Brand) Germany's gardens and parks are threatened by an introduced fungus: For the first time, scientists...

Gattaca: Scientific Review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_NON7fHsQQ A society that is characterized by DNA analysis and genetic manipulation: To what extent we have come closer to the future vision of the...

Covid-19 risk groups: Background information

The older COVID-19 patients are, the more immune cells they develop to target the virus. However, fewer and fewer of these T helper...

“Naked” planet discovered

Artist's impression of the planet roughly the size of Neptune in front of its central star. (Image: University of Warwick / Mark Garlick) A...

Bees estimate probabilities

Honey bee on a flower. (Image: anrivona / iStock) Honey bees collect their food from different types of flowers, each of which contains different...

The politician

Photo: Daniel Meißner Taking action instead of just getting excited - that was Lucie Hammecke's drive to go into politics. Today she sits for...

Proboscid migration in the genetic level

The mastodon once had an astonishingly wide distribution in North America. (Image: D. Finnin / © AMNH) Today beavers, elk and the like are...

Amazing plant vampire

A cucumber plant in the stranglehold of the devil's thread. The parasite adapts the time of its flowering (small rounded structures) to that...

Sturgeon on the royal menu

Wooden barrel and sturgeon shed discovered in the wreck (Image: Brett Seymour, Brendan Foley) In 1495, the Danish King Hans set out for Sweden by...

Unscrupulousness doesn’t make you more successful

Are unsympathetic managers more successful. (Image: mediaphotos / iStock) Do traits such as arrogance, selfishness and aggressive dominance help to achieve more professional success?...

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