A 325-metre-high climate research tower is being built in the Amazon rainforest more
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After the Philae lander was separated from Rosetta on 12 November, it remained in view of its mother space probe more
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Interview with sociologist Tobias Vogt from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research more
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What labels on textiles can tell us about society more
There are few topics as controversial as research involving experiments on animals in general and primates in particular. more
Scientists have decoded the functioning of the short-term memory more
Functional magnetic resonance images reflect input signals of nerve cells more