Posted on December 10, 2022 (Updated on July 9, 2025)
Missing person rescued from Falkenstein cave
Natural EnvironmentsThe four students who were reported missing on Sunday morning have been rescued. They had entered the Falkenstein cave near Bad Urach on Saturday. After a thunderstorm, the water level in the cave had suddenly risen so much that their way back was blocked. Divers from the cave rescue service were able to free the
Posted on December 10, 2022 (Updated on July 9, 2025)
Bold theory: the earth’s parts are moving!
Natural EnvironmentsDuring a conference of the Geological Society in Frankfurt, the meteorologist and polar researcher Alfred Wegener put forward a daring theory: According to him, the continents move on the earth. Colleagues of the geology express themselves skeptically to rejecting. If Alfred Wegener had claimed that the Earth was a disc, he would hardly have caused
Posted on December 8, 2022 (Updated on July 9, 2025)
Storm in space
Natural EnvironmentsA solar storm raced towards Earth on Saturday at a speed of 800 kilometres per second. So far, there has been no significant damage to the technology in space. But the danger has not yet been averted: A solar storm can cause the Earth’s magnetic field to oscillate for days. Last Thursday, a solar eruption
Posted on December 8, 2022 (Updated on July 9, 2025)
Doom and gloom in Stuttgart
Natural EnvironmentsA total solar eclipse is not something you experience every day. The people of Stuttgart were all the more disappointed when a thick cloud cover blocked their view of the black sun. And instead of sunglasses, umbrellas were unpacked, because at the time of the eclipse, heavy rain was pelting down. The event lasted only
Posted on December 8, 2022 (Updated on July 9, 2025)
Unbelievable: amateur chemist decomposes water!
Natural EnvironmentsIt is a sensation for science: water can be split into two parts. The French banker and amateur chemist Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier (born 26 August 1743) proved this in an amazing experiment. A year before his experiment, Lavoisier had already heard from England that water could be split into two gases. The British nobleman
Posted on December 8, 2022 (Updated on July 9, 2025)
Tsunami disaster in Japan
Natural EnvironmentsThe seaquake that shook the seabed off the coast of Japan on Friday, 11 March 2011, has had devastating consequences. The quake triggered a tsunami more than 10 metres high, which rushed towards the coast at several 100 kilometres per hour. The water flooded a 1000-kilometre-long coastal strip and left a picture of devastation. It