Category: Feature Stories

One moment everything is still fine; the other moment, you suddenly notice a violent pulling in your mouth. You quickly try to scan your teeth with your tongue – but they are suddenly suspiciously loose. Your pulse is suddenly at 180, and while you rush to the mirror in a panic, you can already feel that one tooth after the other has just gone… Why do we dream?“Phew, lucky you: it was all just a dream.” Many people suffer from recurring nightmares like the one about their teeth falling out.…

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There is a lack of knowledge in many places when it comes to saving energy. We take a closer look at five popular energy-saving myths. Electricity prices are currently at record levels, and there is no end to the tricky market situation. Especially in times like these, consumers want to minimize their energy consumption to lighten the load on their wallets. But what is the best way to do this? The fact that one should not leave the lights on unnecessarily is obvious and known in every household. Apart from…

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The upcoming iPhones could resemble the 11 models with rounder sides. If a current rumour is true, all iPhones will receive a new design this year; among other things, there will be no more sharp edges. Even bigger changes will be reserved for the Pro models. It feels like Apple has just unveiled the iPhone 14 series, but the company will introduce the new models in about eight months. This means that the functions and design of the devices have already been determined, or possible options are now being weighed,…

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Corona infection now seems like no big deal to many. But covid-19 is followed by long covid in about ten percent of all cases. A new study summarizes the current research state and comes to worrying conclusions. Around 65 million people worldwide are thought to suffer from the late effects of corona disease. This is the conclusion of an overview study published a few days ago in Nature Reviews Microbiology journal. Scientists from the Patient-Led Research Collaborative and the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla, in the U.S. state…

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Astronomers* have published the most detailed star map of a part of the Milky Way. Approximately 3.32 billion celestial objects are recorded in it. For this, 21,400 individual images and more than ten terabytes of data were collected. The map was created over two years using the Dark Energy Camera at NSF’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The entire DECaPS2 survey map is publicly available in high resolution (here). It shows the Galactic disk as seen from the Southern Hemisphere. This covers 6.5 percent of the night sky. Individual…

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Samsung Unveils Flex In & Out Flexible Display That Can be Folded Twice Into an “S” Shape Samsung subsidiary Samsung Display has shown a new prototype of a foldable display at CES in Las Vegas. The “Flex In & Out” display folds in both directions – inward and outward. The display features a new hinge design where the fold is not as noticeable. The hinge is also called the “water drop hinge” because the display takes on a shape similar to a drop of water when folded inwards. This puts…

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German molecular psychologist Christian Montag has been studying the side effects of digitalization for years. His latest book, “You belong to us! The psychological strategies of Facebook, Tiktok, Snapchat & Co.” (Blessing Verlag), explains the methods of the tech giants to keep users online as long as possible. “An alcoholic is not addicted to the bottle, but to the content. It’s the same with the smartphone. It’s about the apps that cause problematic consumption. This can be Instagram, but also the e-mail account. Here, a differentiated view should help to…

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Change your whole life to marry the great love? Sounds like a pretty daring move. But a nun and a monk from the UK add to it: they saw each other only once before they decided to leave the Order. There are enough unusual love stories. Sometimes you fall in love with your former nemesis; sometimes, you look for great love with a Lego reconstruction of getting to know each other; and other times, you give up everything to be with your great love. Mary Elizabeth and Robert also took…

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A Harvard University study looked into the question of what makes people happy. What makes a person truly happy? Is it money, power, material possessions or something else entirely? A Harvard University study has devoted more than 85 years to this question and has published its findings. Robert Waldinger, now the fourth leader of the study, summarized this to the “Harvard Healt Blog” in one sentence: “Good relationships make us happier and healthier. Period.” According to the study, the participating men who lived in good relationships lived happier, healthier and…

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