Celebrating the web of life: today, May 22, is International Day of Biological Diversity, aimed at promoting & raising awareness for #biodiversity issues & recognizing the variety of life on Earth, in all its forms🦉🌾🐯🐍🦋 🌳🐝🐟 #IDBD2019 #BiodiversityDay https://t.co/pl1CDMCTP6
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18 Earth-sized #exoplanets discovered: one of them is one of the smallest known so far; another one could offer conditions friendly to life https://t.co/t52MPL6gkk @MPSGoettingen @DrReneHeller
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Celebrating the web of life: today, May 22, is International Day of Biological Diversity, aimed at promoting & raising awareness for biodiversity issues & recognizing the variety of life on Earth, in all its forms🦉🌾🐯🐍🦋 🌳🐝🐟 #IDBD2019 #BiodiversityDay
#mymachineandme: PhD Students Eva Pfannerstill and Akima Ringsdorf and Achim Edtbauer, postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Frankfurt. “On this picture you see us & our PTR-TOF-MS in the backroom of the German Film Museum in Frankfurt measuring the air in the cinema. We want to find out how the chemical composition of the air changes when people experience different emotions. This might provide an indication of the emotional tension they experience while watching a movie.
The PTR-TOF-MS has a very high mass resolution and is very sensitive, it can simultaneously detect concentrations of thousands of different volatile compounds as low as several parts per quadrillion.“
Chimpanzee Gia is cracking a tortoise
Tortoises on the menu: wild chimpanzees eat tortoises after cracking them open against tree trunks.
For more information, see our press release:
https://www.mpg.de/13497324/0520-evan-019609-tortoises-on-the-menu