Flu viruses are constantly changing. Therefore, vaccines also need to be adjusted regularly - and for this season this has been particularly extensive. Does this mean that we are facing a particularly severe flu wave? The most important questions and answers.
The populations of many animals and plants have declined dramatically. However, some species have recovered thanks to targeted nature conservation. The overview.
Around a third of the world’s land and marine areas are to be effectively protected by 2030. Discussions on how this can be achieved will begin today at the COP17 World Nature Conference in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. By Stephan Hübner.
The European Medicines Agency is in favour of approving a new pill for weight loss. It differs in one important point from previous preparations. What is known about benefits and risks.
Cervical or penile cancer usually goes back to HPV infections, there is a vaccination. One researcher explains why Germany is probably missing an important WHO target – and what would have to change.
As the strongest El Niño on record continues to intensify, what impacts on weather patterns are already being felt across the globe? Sarah Keith-Lucas looks at the evidence.
Vanished without a trace for 89 years: Amelia Earhart wanted to orbit the world, but her plane never arrived. Recently, researchers hoped to have encountered the wreck – a mistake, it turns out.
A laboratory researcher accidentally lets samples of Candidozyma auris grow too long and thereby discovers the survival trick of the dreaded clinic fungus. This primarily threatens weakened patients in the intensive care unit and is also spreading in Germany.
