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Giant viruses found on Greenland ice sheet

The viruses probably regulate the growth of snow algae on the ice by infecting them. Knowing how to control these viruses could help us reduce some of the ice from…

Counting penguins in the Antarctic

Emperor penguins are an endangered species. Scientists are protecting the largest of all penguins by monitoring their numbers precisely and investigating which factors affect their population. A team led by…

Gathering data on climate change in the North Atlantic

MERIAN Expedition MSM129 continues long-term observations in the Labrador Sea. As a crucial part of the global ocean conveyor belt, the Atlantic Ocean transports heat northwards – a process that…

New in­sights into the de­grad­a­tion dy­nam­ics of or­ganic ma­ter­ial in the sea­floor

Sci­entific pub­lic­a­tion on the role of mi­cro­bial com­munit­ies in the mar­ine car­bon cycle. Many processes in the deep sea are not yet well understood, and the role of microbial communities…

New discoveries about the nature of light

…could improve methods for heating fusion plasma. Both literally and figuratively, light pervades the world. It banishes darkness, conveys telecommunications signals between continents and makes visible the invisible, from faraway…

On the trail of global climate change

– volcanism as a driver of the climate in the “Carnic crisis”. New research on the so-called ‘Carnian Crisis’ by a team led by Alexander Lukeneder, palaeontologist at the Natural…

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