Tag: knowledge
Australia’s Toxic Fight Against Cats – Knowledge
To protect Australia’s wildlife, ecologists are poisoning foxes, feral cats and other introduced species. But the toxin used kills slowly and painfully. Why is this allowed? Australia is famous for…
Russian mathematician Azat Miftakhov must be in custody – knowledge
A few days ago mathematicians around the world joined in a show of solidarity with one of their young members, 28-year-old Azat Miftakhov. He has been detained in Russia for…
Compaction: It’s getting tight for the soil – knowledge
“Do you hear the earthworms coughing as they move through the dark earth”, it says in a nursery rhyme. In fact, in the absence of a lung, earthworms cannot cough.…
A fish that lives a hundred years – knowledge
Coelacids were long thought to be extinct. Because fossils were found but never living specimens, zoologists were convinced that the animals, up to two meters long, did not survive the…
Climate change: The point at which the climate irreversibly tips
The melting of the Greenland ice sheet can no longer be stopped once a certain threshold has been reached – and that could have far-reaching consequences. Is there any risk…
Bird extinction: Red List is getting longer – Knowledge
Then he’ll be gone, the turnstone. Probably forever. The pretty beach bird no longer exists in Germany. The sucker falcon is also history: in the new Red List of breeding…
“Dragon man” could be the closest relative of Homo sapiens – knowledge
A skull found in China could belong to a human lineage more closely related to modern humans than the Neanderthals. This is the result of an international research group led…
Corona: The fourth wave is sure to come – knowledge
Of Christina Berndt, Sören Müller-Hansen and Vera Schroeder Is Germany heading for a fourth wave? How bad is it? And will all children be infected in one fell swoop because…
Climate Friday: Traveling to Corona – The thing with wanderlust – knowledge
Have you already booked your summer vacation? There is hardly any other topic in my circle of friends at the moment. Somehow understandable, after all, it should be something special,…
Climate change: flying more climate-friendly with bio-kerosene? – Knowledge
There is now no question that flying is not good for the earth: global air traffic contributes around 3.5 percent to climate change. The most important factor is not the…