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Life in the smoke of underwater volcanoes

Mar 9, 2023

Disconnected from the energy of the sun, the permanently ice-covered Arctic deep sea receives miniscule amounts of organic matter that sustains life. Bacteria which can harvest the energy released from submarine hydrothermal sources could thus have an advantage. On research missions with the rese...

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Turning a poison into food

Jan 19, 2023

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology reveal how a methane-generating microbe can grow on toxic sulfite without becoming poisoned. 

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Peter Stief: Marine snow under pressure

Jan 12, 2023

Thursday, January 12, 2023

in the new MPI lecture hall 4012 at 3:00 p.m. (15:00h) (Don´t forget to bring a mask!)

Peter Stief (University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark)

will give a seminar with the title

"Marine snow under pressure: Mineralization, bacterial colonization, and diatom li...

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Slime for the climate, delivered by brown algae

Dec 26, 2022

Brown algae take up large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air and release parts of the carbon contained therein back into the environment in mucous form. This mucus is hard to break down for other ocean inhabitants, thus the carbon is removed from the atmosphere for a long time, as researchers...

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