Risks in air travel, gene therapy for deafness and images of our galaxy: The reading recommendations of the week from the SPIEGEL science editorial team. In 1958, according to Airbus figures, there were almost twelve fatal accidents per million takeoffs.

By 2022, this metric has fallen to 0.01. Documents from the 18th century have emerged in Bad Waldsee in Upper Swabia. The widow of an executioner may have executed a thief with the sword.. Despite the icy cold, Homo sapiens lived in northern Europe much earlier than previously thought.