Category: Feature Stories

In late fall, many amateur gardeners put their kingdom into hibernation. These five tips from experts can help. The best days in the garden are over, you might think. But for amateur gardeners who like to tackle, dig and work with pruning shears, now is a good time: the garden needs their care and protection. To do: Dig up bulbs and tubers. Summer and frost-sensitive bulbous and tuberous flowers, such as the dahlia, belong in winter storage from about three degrees. Dig up the bulbs and tubers, roughly free them…

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In October, we are in for another extraordinary celestial spectacle, which will also be visible in Austria: The moon will move in front of the sun. Stargazers and astronomy buffs aren’t the only ones who should mark October 25, 2022, boldly on their calendars: A partial solar eclipse will be observable from all over Austria during the midday hours – weather permitting. And a look into the blue is worthwhile on this day; it is the last solar eclipse in Austria until March 29, 2025. Just in time for the…

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Of the approximately 16 billion cell phones worldwide, it is estimated that about 5.3 billion will become waste this year. Experts point this out on the occasion of e-waste day on October 14. Only a small part of it is disposed of properly, the e-waste recycling association WEEE Forum in Brussels and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in Geneva announced Thursday. According to the report, if the discarded devices, which are about 9 millimeters thick, were all placed on top of each other, the tower would…

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In the morning, after getting up, in the evening before going to sleep, on the road, and at work. The smartphone is our constant companion – and steals our time and attention. The pull of the smartphone is strong.Every day, we reach for our smartphone 88 times, and 53 times we unlock the device. Although these are average figures, they are based on an analysis of 60,000 smartphone users. So there’s a good chance that your behavior is similar.The mere presence of a smartphone is enough to capture our attention,…

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Since the Earth was formed, meteorites, dust and asteroids have been pelting down on it. Shouldn’t it get bigger and bigger over time? Nobody was there when it happened. But one is convinced that the planet earth formed itself as small rocks lumped together into a giant ball. This occurred in the solar system’s infancy when a massive disk of dust and gas orbited the sun. The larger the young Earth became, the more material it attracted. To this day, the shower of rock continues in a weakened form. So…

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The Internet consumes energy. Most of us are not even aware of this. A search query here, streaming a few episodes of a series there and later talking on the phone with the family via Skype. The fact that energy is consumed in the process is quickly forgotten. The Internet consumes a lot of energy.The Internet operates through large servers that run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and require electricity. Each file must be routed through different servers, search queries must be managed, and files must be…

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By 2030, no one should go hungry. This UN target is becoming ever more distant: 828 million people worldwide – a fifth more than in 2019 and one in ten overall – suffer from hunger. NGOs are calling for more funding for humanitarian aid and development cooperation ahead of World Food Day on Sunday (Oct. 16) and the start of budget negotiations. “Not least because of the Ukraine war, but also as a result of the climate crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic, local conflicts, and inflationary and price pressures, we are…

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Just like the coronavirus, the disease’s signs changed over time. Researchers have now identified a new primary symptom. Over the past two and a half years, the coronavirus has evolved several times, and with the different variants, the symptoms that indicate infection have also changed. In the beginning, cough, fever, and loss of sense of smell and taste were clear indicators of infection, but now it can also be a cold. Scientists from Great Britain observe and document this continuously in the context of the “Zoe Covid Symptom Study,” the…

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Previously, corona numbers declined in the warm months, but we were in the middle of a summer wave this year. What does that mean for the fall? No one can predict precisely what will come in the fall. It depends primarily on what new variants of the coronavirus emerge. Various scenarios are conceivable. Most favorable scenario – In this example, a new virus variant would emerge that causes less illness than other omicron strains. For it to become the dominant variant, it would have to be even more contagious than…

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