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Four drops of different antibiotics were applied to a bacterial lawn dyed green. The white ring around each one varies in thickness, showing how effective the antibiotic is. The white spots are where the bacteria have been killed.

Evolutionary biologist Jens Rolff is working on a device that will help predict the development of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

Bacterial diseases such as gonorrhea and tuberculosis, long viewed as vanquished, are making a comeback. More and more pathogens are developing resistance to antibiotics.

Mourning for the victims: On December 19, 2016, the Tunisian Anis Amri drove a truck into a booth alley of the Christmas market at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin. Twelve people lost their lives, and 55 were injured.

In a Europe-wide project, developmental psychologist Herbert Scheithauer studies why young people become radicalized – and what can be done about it.

What has to happen in a young person’s life for him or her to travel to Syria and join a terrorist group?

The ossuary on Monte Grappa, in the north of Italy, is built on an enormous scale.

Hannah Malone is an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Department of History and Cultural Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.

“The powerful have always used death as an instrument in significant ways,” says Hannah Malone.

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