Plants use their roots to search for water. While the main root digs downwards, a large number of fine lateral roots explore the soil on all sides. As…
Pectoral sandpipers (Calidris melanotos) migrate long distances, also during the breeding season. After a journey from the wintering grounds in the Southern…
The demand for batteries for electric cars will increase dramatically in the next few years. At present, more than 90 percent of these batteries come from Asia.
Through photosynthesis, forests remove the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere to build up biomass, but they also release CO₂ again through…
It happens in every office on any given day: As soon as a worker takes a mug from a cupboard, it becomes his or hers for the rest of the shift. While her…
Like humans, stars change with age and ultimately die. For the Sun and stars like it, this change will take it through a phase where, having burned all the…