It is not entirely clear when exactly the last major asteroid impact on Earth occurred. But there are plenty of examples of impact craters, such as the Nördlinger Ries in Bavaria.

Project NEOShield: Asteroid defence systems

Amateur astronomers who on occasion observe Mars through the eyepiece of their telescopes are quite familiar with the region of Syrtis Major; when observing conditions are good, it can be easily identified as a dark spot on Mars.

Mars Express: A dark spot on Mars - Syrtis Major

KIT-Klimaforscher untersuchen, wie sich feinste Partikel (Aerosole) aus Kraftwerksabgasen auf Wolken und Niederschlag auswirken.

Auch saubere Kohleverbrennung beeinflusst das Klima

On 1 January 1992, the GDR Institute of High-Energy Physics was officially unified with the Hamburg research centre DESY. Today, the 20th anniversary of this fruitful research unification was celebrated in Zeuthen with a symposium, with about 300 DESY staff members and guests.

20 years of DESY in Brandenburg

Glioblastomas are regarded as particularly aggressive brain tumors. In children with glioblastoma, Heidelberg scientists have now discovered genetic alterations that affect the function of DNA packaging proteins known as histones. In a cell, histones serve as coils around which the DNA wraps. At the same time, histones regulate gene activity. Mutations in histone genes have never before been tied to a disease. The group comprising scientists of the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg University Hospitals and McGill University in Canada have now reported their findings in Nature.

Defects in the packaging of genetic material in malignant brain tumors