🧪 Fish skin proves highly effective for burns
👉 In Brazil, doctors are increasingly using the skin of a Tilapia (a species of fish) to treat burns. The skin contains large amounts of collagen and omega-3, which significantly speeds up healing while also reducing pain. All of this comes at a lower...
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🧪 Zero shadow day: no shadow in sight! 📖
👉 In Hawaiʻi – and a handful of other places around the world – the shadow of upright objects completely disappears twice a year. This happens when the sun is positioned directly above that location. Locally, the day is known as Lāhainā Noon and...
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🧪 This giant scorpion was 3 feet long!
👉 A new study confirms that Praearcturus gigas was a giant scorpion. The animal lived more than 400 million years ago in Great Britain. Fossils show that it was likely active both in water and on land. It may even have been among the first large predat...
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🧪 Turbulence is not what we thought...
👉 Researchers have demonstrated that within turbulence, the direction of energy does not always remain fixed. In doing so, they have turned a theory that has stood for more than eighty years on its head. Experiments confirmed that energy flows can, und...
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🚀 Europe goes full throttle toward the cosmos
👉 ESA, the European Space Agency, has extended thirteen existing space missions and approved a brand-new one. The extended projects study the sun, planets, and distant galaxies, among other things… in other words: everything. And the new Arrakihs mis...
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🧪 This deep-sea bacterium surprises scientists!
👉 Scientists have discovered an entirely new species of bacterium deep beneath the ocean floor. It reproduces in an unusual way and thrives in nutrient-rich conditions. In addition, it works together with a virus that helps process nitrogen – a remar...
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🧪 Heart patch keeps hope for healing alive
👉 Australian researchers have grown beating heart tissue from stem cells. The technology aims to better treat severe heart problems without transplantation. New heart patches could make damaged hearts stronger again. Families with hereditary heart dise...
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🧪 Heart patch keeps hope for healing alive
👉 Australian researchers have grown beating heart tissue from stem cells. The technology aims to better treat severe heart problems without transplantation. New h...
🧪 Bdelloidea: the masters of survival 📖
👉 Bdelloids are microscopic animals that manage to survive without sexual reproduction. They clone themselves and use clever ways to gain genetic variation. Their ability to repair DNA and take it up from others plays a major role in this. On top of th...
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🧪 A battery revolution for electric cars?
👉 Toyota is working on electric cars with a new battery. These solid-state batteries are much safer, more powerful, and also charge even faster. The technology was developed together with Japan's Sumitomo and is expected to hit the market from 2027. Th...
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⌛ Prehistoric fishing tools found in Iran
👉 Along the Makran coast in Iran, archaeologists have found very old fishing tools, such as stone hooks and net weights. The discovery shows that people there were already seriously engaged in sea fishing thousands of years ago. The coastline in questi...
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🚀 Massive space explosion breaks all the rules
👉 An extremely powerful space explosion has surprised quite a few scientists worldwide. The behavior of the blast does not fit within our existing theories. Multiple explanations are now being investigated, but none of them is certain. The discovery ma...
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🧪 Remarkable: icy air bubbles from 6,000,000 years ago
👉 Scientists have discovered ice in Antarctica that is at least 6 million years old – and still well preserved – with even the tiny air bubbles intact. The ice provides information about the climate of that time. The discovery was made relatively c...
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🧪 Chimpanzee "sings" 🎶 while drumming!
👉 A chimpanzee in Japan appears to be able to make music using objects, producing sounds that strongly resemble singing. Researchers discovered that his rhythms were highly structured and stable. His behavior may show how human music once began and gra...
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🧪 "Bullshit bingo" officially mapped out
👉 Research shows that people who frequently use obligatory corporate jargon (colloquially known as "bullshit bingo") often score worse on logical thinking and decision-making. They find leaders who use vague language more convincing and then go on to u...
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🧪 Hydrogen battery could stabilize power grid for decades
👉 A Dutch company has developed a hydrogen-iron flow battery for long-term energy storage. Tests show the system can handle tens of thousands of charge cycles while maintaining both stable performance and high efficiency. Thanks to inexpensive material...
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🧪 Unique: living bridges in India
👉 Some bridges are tourist attractions. Just think of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, or the Swan in Rotterdam (Netherlands). Of a completely different order are the "living root bridges." These are living bridges that grow from tree roots. An...
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🧪 Fresh from the Jurassic: a python on legs
👉 On the Scottish island of Skye a new – and at the same time ancient – reptile has been discovered. The animal lived about 165 million years ago and looks like a python with legs. The combo of snake teeth and lizard legs amazes researchers and is...
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🧪 Sea monster from prehistoric times discovered
👉 On Vancouver Island, a 12-meter-long prehistoric sea reptile has been discovered. The animal had unique teeth, a long neck and probably hunted ammonites from above. The fossils have been known since 1988, but the species only just received a name. Th...
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