Cluck once, and the river shakes: Inside the Amazon’s giant snake saga
As a child, I was fascinated by reports and documentaries about field research and often wondered what it took to be there and what kind of knowledge was being produced.…
Astronomers just found a giant planet that shouldn’t exist
Star TOI-6894 is just like many in our galaxy, a small red dwarf, and only ~20% of the mass of our Sun. Like many small stars, it is not expected…
From boring to bursting: Giant black hole awakens
Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our Sun) lurk at the centre of most galaxies, their very nature makes them difficult to spot…
Giant viruses found on Greenland ice sheet
Every spring when the sun rises in the Arctic after months of darkness, life returns. The polar bears pop up from their winter lairs, the arctic tern soar back from…
Giant viruses infect deadly parasite
The single-celled organism Naegleria fowleri ranks among the deadliest human parasites. Researchers around Matthias Horn and Patrick Arthofer from the Center for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science at the University…
Ammonia for fertilizers without the giant carbon footprint
The production of ammonia for fertilisers — which has one of the largest carbon footprints among industrial processes — will soon be possible on farms using low-cost, low-energy and environmentally…