During hot spells, deciduous trees reduce surface temperatures more intensely than conifers. (Image: Smileus / iStock)
As is well known, a walk in the...
Piece of an enstatite-chondrite meteorite in which the researchers found a surprising amount of hydrogen. (Photo: L. Piani, Museum of Natural History in...
Aquatic plants are the service providers of marine ecosystems: They provide habitats for fish and other marine life, are food for migratory birds, part...
Artist's impression of a gamma-ray burst (Image: Superbossa.com, Alice Donini / MAGIC Collaboration)
The speed of light is constant, according to Einstein's theory of relativity....
This is what a hibernating lystrosaur might have looked like. (Image: Crystal Shin)
The clever strategy with which some of today's animals survive times...
Bioengineered Neuronal Organoid (BENO) and enlargement of its neural network structure (right) (Image: Zafeiriou et al./ Nature Communications 11, 3791)
The brain is our most...
Use of pesticides in agriculture (Image: valio8sl / iStock)
Bacteria play an important role in the breakdown of toxic pesticides: For the first time, researchers...
Exposed head of the sauropod embryo (Image: Kundrat et al. / Current Biology)
Sauropods - long-necked herbivorous dinosaurs - were the largest land animals to...
How well do floating garbage collectors help against plastic pollution in the oceans? (Image: Roger Spranz, ZMT / Making Oceans Plastic Free)
The oceans...