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A translation vanished: Why Ljuba Metzl may be missing from theater history
- Mar 5, 2026
The Neo-Latin theater play "Cenodoxus" (1602) by Jakob Bidermann is now only known to some researchers in Latin and German studies. But from 1930 to 1...
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Scientific discoveries and research
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New species of ancient mollusk found in South Korean waters
- Mar 5, 2026
Scientists have discovered a new species of chiton, an ancient marine mollusk that has remained virtually unchanged for the last 300 million years. Ch...
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Environmental sampling finds more poultry viruses than bird swabs in live markets
- Mar 5, 2026
Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have found that viruses circulating in live poultry markets can be detected more effectively by sampling the sur...
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Drones capture rare harbor porpoise mating behavior off Shetland
- Mar 5, 2026
Drones flying above the waters of Shetland have captured rare footage of harbor porpoises gathering in unusually large groups and engaging in mating b...
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Weaponizing kinship: How Colombia's armed conflict uses family loss to tear apart communities
- Mar 5, 2026
During armed conflicts in Latin America, state forces, insurgents, and paramilitaries systematically employed massacres, torture, abductions, and targ...
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Whole-genome study of koalas shows genetic diversity alone can misread extinction risk
- Mar 5, 2026
A new study published in Science is challenging long-held assumptions about how we measure genetic risk in endangered species. Researchers analyzed wh...
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This odd little plant could help turbocharge crop yields
- Mar 5, 2026
An international team of researchers has uncovered a remarkable molecular trick used by a unique group of land plants, one that could eventually be en...
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Even if warming is limited to 2°C, wildfires, storms and beetles may boost Europe forest loss
- Mar 5, 2026
Forest damage in Europe caused by wildfires, storms and bark beetle outbreaks is projected to increase compared to recent decades under all analyzed c...
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Wild macaques don't abandon babies. So why did Punch's mother?
- Mar 5, 2026
Little Punch, a seven-month-old Japanese macaque living in the Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan, has captured hearts on the internet. Abandoned by his mothe...
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Paleontologists challenge use of bone growth rings to age crocodiles, dinosaurs
- Mar 5, 2026
Do the bones of all Nile crocodiles have the same number of growth marks as their age? And can such growth rings be counted to accurately gauge the ag...
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The Black Death's counterintuitive effect: As human numbers fell, so did plant diversity
- Mar 5, 2026
Between 1347 and 1353, Europe was gripped by the most catastrophic pandemic in its history: the Black Death. Killing many millions, the plague wiped o...
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Polymers that crawl like worms: How materials can develop direction without being told where to go
- Mar 5, 2026
Researchers at the University of Vienna have uncovered a surprising phenomenon: polymer chains with segments that simply fluctuate at different intens...