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Scientists have assumed that species display a life cycle which is similar to the the life of humans, being divided into puberty, maturity, and old age. Paleobiology student Niklas Hohmann and Dr. Emilia Jarochowska showed in their recent publication that these life cycles are mathematical relics an... Continue

Climate change is perceived very differently in our society. The natural sciences often set completely different priorities here than, for example, politics or economics. And how does tomorrow's generation see this development? At the Long Night of Sciences, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kießling, Dr. Florian ... Continue

Climate change is progressing faster than we would have dreamed a few years ago. The consequences for people and the environment are already clearly noticeable, but we are only at the beginning of accelerating global warming. Climate sceptics often stress that climate change has always existed, but ... Continue

At The European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2019 in Vienna Theresa presented a synsedimentary-grown Halysites (chain coral) colony from the Silurian of Gotland crosscutting several beds of the circumambient limestone-marl alternation. The limestone-marl alternation was identified to be of early diagenet... Continue