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Women have been struggling with the gender gap since the Stone Age
The size differences between men and women used to be much greater than they are today. According to skeletal analyses, there are no...
Penguins take 10,000 short naps a day
For us humans, constantly falling asleep indicates a lack of sleep, but for chinstrap penguins it is normal: the birds, which nest in a...
Viennese researchers grow miniature beating hearts
In test vessels designed by the Viennese biologist Sasha Mendjan, miniature hearts of a few millimeters in size (also called cardiac organoids) grow from...
New clues to the origin of life found
Proteinaceous aggregates called amyloids may have played a role in the origins of life, according to a new study. A research team from...
The back of the worm develops a brain and can see
A backside from which a brain and four eyes grow - this actually happens to a worm that lives in the sea. The...
