It is found in mature cheddar cheese and mushrooms, in potatoes, lettuce, nuts, apples, pears and cream cheese, whole grain products and wheat germ: spermidine. We take in up to 15 mg per day, depending on what we eat. Perhaps the polyamine (molecules that cells need to survive and grow) would hardly be on our … Read more
Since almost all corona measures have been withdrawn, the epidemiologists at the RKI can only appeal to common sense. “It therefore remains very important to implement the existing recommendations and, if symptoms of a respiratory infection such as a runny nose, sore throat or cough occur – regardless of the vaccination status and regardless of … Read more
Good visibility for Central Germany: You should have binoculars to hand for observation Although C/2022 E3 is so far away, we can observe it. In early February, its brightness at the Nachimmel is 5.5 mag. The magnitude (mag) describes the apparent brightness of a star or celestial body. The smaller the number, the brighter the … Read more
Light is considered hope, life and essential. In the summer, when the sky is blue, our bodies are surrounded by clouds of illumination up to 100,000 Lux. It’s a completely different story in the winter, when the luminosity only reaches about 3,500 lux, far too dim for many people. Not a few suffer from winter … Read more
Researchers are fiercely discussing what led to the adaptation of corona vaccines to the BA.5 variant. While vaccine makers Biontech and Moderna are touting the benefits of the new bivalent booster vaccines, a new independent laboratory study by researchers in Göttingen and Hanover now suggests that while there is an additional benefit from the upgrade, … Read more
A study from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania recently showed that most young people have already built up at least a certain basic immunity to corona. With the publication of a new study, the Robert Koch Institute has now confirmed this impression for those over 18 as well. According to this, 92 percent of adults in Germany already … Read more
The 14th and 15th centuries are known in historical studies as the age of climate change, epidemics and major social crises. Back then, all of Europe was plagued by cold summers and failed harvests. Regions like England experienced huge population losses. The era of Viking settlement in Greenland ended because the settlers of European origin … Read more
In the same arm again or would you prefer the other one for a change? Everyone who went for the second, third or even fourth corona vaccination faced this choice. Anyone who always chose the same place for the different vaccine doses could have gained a slight immunological advantage. This is indicated by a new … Read more
The team whose molecule travels the most nanometers (i.e. billionths of a meter, every snail on the other hand is probably something like a supersonic aircraft) on its surface in 24 hours wins. A total of eight teams are registered, including from the USA, Japan, Austria, Spain and Germany. The race is coordinated at the … Read more
Bell’s law states that there will be a new class of computers about every ten years. Starting with the huge, room-filling computers of the 1960s, followed by the 1970s, which came with smaller workstation designs and over time got smaller and even more portable. And today computers are so small that they are difficult to … Read more