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Nobel Prize in medicine awarded for optogenetics discoveries
Two German researchers and a US scientist share the honor for work on light-gated ion channels.
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Research, awards and archaeological finds.
Medieval water pipe discovered in former Posa Monastery
The fired clay pipes date from the 14th century and show the infrastructure of the complex.
Oldest grave in Leipzig city area uncovered
On a school construction site, experts found a roughly 7,000-year-old crouched burial from the Linear Pottery culture.
Underwater archaeologists find millennia-old timbers in Arendsee
The relics, up to 10,500 years old, date to the Mesolithic and lay at a depth of around 20 meters.
