They call it #pollen, but we all know it's really tiny fearsome alien spaceships planning an invasion of your nose! 😱😉Left: llustrations of grains of pollens by German chemist Carl Julius Fritzsche (1837) @PublicDomainRev Right: SEM image of pollen https://t.co/HDAo6XdYDB
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That is great! 😁 Despite its importance in the history of the early #universe, the helium hydride ion has so far escaped detection. The GREAT Instrument aboard the flying observatory #SOFIA now traced this special molecule https://t.co/oEbfUbwbbD #astrophysics @SOFIA_DSI @DLR_en https://t.co/ul1TcnJQnc
#mymachineandme: Anna Weyrich,
PhD researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin
"Me, enjoying everyday life with my machine, the 'Complex Object Parametric Analyzer and Sorter' (COPAS). I am studying the malaria vector Anopheles for a better understanding of the interactions between mosquito and malaria parasite.
The COPAS is sorting transgenic Anopheles larvae by fluorescence. Doing it by hand would take ages!"
What's your 'machine', the instrument / gadget / device you spend your days with in the lab? Let us know!
Accompany the white shark on a seal hunt
The Great White Shark is one of the most fascinating marine animals on earth. However, many films and books portray it as an insatiable predator - but hardly anything is known about its hunting behavior. An international team of scientists, including researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell, has now observed white sharks hunting seals off the coast of South Africa. (copyright: TK Chapple: http://taylorchapple.wix.com/ecologist)