Tag: To know
UN negotiates protected areas on the high seas – Knowledge
If there is a country that is connected to the sea, it is Panama. Only slightly larger than Bavaria, but blessed with a coastline longer than Denmark’s. The Caribbean on…
A warning for other high-risk areas – Knowledge
Those traveling to earthquake-hit Turkey and Syria to help are finding a region that has gone haywire. Everything possible is broken, crushed or grotesquely shifted. The injuries are everywhere: in…
New chamber in Cheops pyramid photographed – Knowledge
From Jacob Wetzel What is this chamber? At the top it is closed off by a gable roof, the limestone walls are only roughly hewn, in the background a transverse…
“Dark Energy Survey” makes cosmologists doubt the universe model – knowledge
From Andrew Jaeger Physics is often about comparing two things: the world as it is theoretically supposed to be and the world as it is measured. If there is a…
How early Europeans got through the Ice Age – Knowledge
A large genome analysis delivers several surprises: Before the last glacial period, there were several groups of people in Europe who apparently had no contact with each other. And in…
The world is hardly prepared for natural disasters – knowledge
The recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria has already claimed more than 50,000 lives and the number of confirmed deaths is still rising every day. Many people would probably still…
How the Inca used clothing to rule their empire – Knowledge
Inca explorers don’t have it easy. They spend their lives trying to understand this empire better, fathoming its culture, politics and legal understanding. The mere question of how the Incas…
Rare earths: bacteria bind metals – Knowledge
Several strains of cyanobacteria can bind to rare earth metals. In some strains, the adsorbed metals accounted for up to ten percent of the dry matter of the microorganisms, reports…
Biology: why cicadas shoot with urine – knowledge
Certain leafhoppers have an immense throughput of food. Day after day, they hurl up to around 300 times their body weight in small droplets of urine from their rear end.…
Climate change fuels conflicts between humans and wildlife – Knowledge
From Benjamin von Brackel At first it was just a few blue sheep that descended the mountains of the Himalayas. Over time, however, residents in the Mustang district of Nepal…