Europe's first ecosystem with its own rights
The largest saltwater lagoon in the western Mediterranean is threatened with ecological collapse. Intensive agriculture is...
Amphibian and reptile species threatened by drought years
The low rainfall in recent years has not only severely reduced amphibians in Brandenburg, but also many reptile species....
Traffic lights agreement on CO2 price sharing
According to information from the AFP news agency, the government has agreed on key points for the planned sharing of CO2...
Healthy reefs survive coral bleaching from heat waves
Relatively recently, a heat wave in the southern summer of 2016/2017 triggered coral bleaching with devastating damage...
Pathogens, the invisible historians
Before Covid-19, it was the world's deadliest disease. In 2018, the World Health Organization estimated ten million people...
Mathematical modelling could reduce infection rates
A quick scan of the cell phone display and the long-awaited entrance to a movie theater, a concert, a handball hall, or...
Mystery solved: The origins of flying dinosaurs
Fossils of pterosaurs, the earliest reptiles to evolve powered flight, were unearthed in the 19th Century but their...
Climate Change and Mathematical Modelling Illusions
For the past three decades, human-caused global warming alarmists have tried to frighten the public with stories of doom...
A green way of coloring denims blue
A new research study led by the University of California, Berkeley engineering Professor John Dueber has shown that indigo...
Planting trees no longer an option to mop up our increasing CO2 emissions
Nations around the globe are stepping up, determined to uphold the 2015 Paris climate agreement of limiting the global...
Revolutionizing clean energy by recycling not-quite-so-rare earths
Steel was the material of progress during the industrial revolution, while the twentieth century was the age of Mylar,...
How interfering with your vision can shatter your recall of the way things look
How do we recall our stored knowledge of the physical properties of objects? Do we "see" things all over again when asked...
Welcome to the neighborhood, Proxima b!
Scientists of the European Southern Observatory (ESO, headquartered right here in Munich!) discovered a planet orbiting...
Welcome to Jupiter!
How did planets form? Where did they get the ingredients for life, like carbon and nitrogen, that we hold so dear on...
Predicting the tipping point of complex systems
While preparing soup, have you ever wondered at what point does a pot of boiling water start evaporating? Now, we know...
Even Chimps Trust Friends
Trust plays an important part in any friendship.
We trust that our friends will be there for us in a time of need, even if...
When the sea comes marching in
Take the year 2100- although many of us in our 20s and 30s today may not live that long, yet our own children and...
Computers of the future may have eyes of an insect
Hold a pencil in front of you and look at it with one or the other eye closed: it appears to shift a little.
That's the...
Religiosity as a predictor of a child's kindness
A recent study on the influence of religion on altruistic behavior among children was conducted by Dr. Jean Decety, at the...
How basic research helped expose VW's dirty secret!
German auto giant Volkswagen's (VW) recent fall from grace is a result of the same greed that brought down Toyota nearly...
Global warming in Arctic much faster than previously assumed
Deutsches Museum becomes fit for the future
Number of toads and frogs in Brandenburg drops dramatically
Increasing wildfires due to climate change
Google reduces the error rate of its quantum computer
The brown dog tick opens up habitats in Germany
Climate protection: great goals, but no way to get there
Horses and donkeys revive a desert biotope
Indoor farms are particularly environmentally friendly
Cause of mass death of bald eagles discovered
Artificial snow to preserve glaciers
Climate fight looks to CO2 storage
Two billion euro program for innovation in Bavaria
Radiation fraud must be exposed
Antibiotic shows antiviral potential
Do Animals Have Supernatural powers?
Future smart devices might provide you with a feel for virtual textures and shapes
Body clock research wins the 2017 Nobel prize in physiology
Seven "Earth-ish" planets herald a new season in the search for alien life
Swarms of robots go with the flow to reveal the mysteries of the ocean
Are we there yet- The long journey to Mars
Nanomachines win Nobel Prize
Mars welcomes its latest orbiter ExoMars
Looking through 'Smart' Windows
Turning a new leaf in the search for lower emissions
Bacteria Needed to Save Coral Reef
Stretching quantum cats could make for better computers
"Happy little accident" opens new avenues for amazing future batteries
Networking: Nature or Nurture?
Eating away at efforts to alleviate climate change
A 300-year old mystery solved!
A bright window into our past, present and future
Climate change may not alter Southeast Asian Monsoons
Gravity waves a 'Hello! I am here!'
Why you won't lose weight with exercise alone
Power for a charger-free world
Cooperation catalyzes the evolution of cleaner cars
A second wind for exoplanets habitability
Flowing water found on Mars
