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Image shows an emperor penguin colony near the Neumayer station of the Alfred Wegener Institute in an undated photo. A 2022 study showed that young emperor penguins swim far north beyond the 50th parallel south in their first year of life in Antarctica. (Alfred Wegener Institut, Aymeric Houstin/Newsflash)

Astonished Researchers Find Penguins Free Of Microplastics

Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
Post published:October 5, 2022

Overjoyed researchers have revealed how a new study of the diet of emperor penguins shows they have no trace of microplastic in their bodies. Doctoral candidate from the Department of…

Pictures shows the microplastics ingested by the turtles recovered in the La Tahonilla Wildlife Recovery Center, in Tenerife, Spain, undated. All the turtles treated at the centre have ingested plastic throughout their lives. (Cabildo Insular de Tenerife/Newsflash)

All Turtles At Recovery Centre Found To Have Ingested Plastic

Post author:William McGee
Post published:September 8, 2022

A worrying new report has shown that all turtles treated at an animal recovery centre in Tenerife have ingested plastic. Plastic traces were found in stool samples from every turtle…

Picture shows the University of Hamburg in an undated photo. Scientist at the University have detected microplastics in human liver tissue for the first time (Newsflash)

Microplastics Detected In Human Liver Tissue For First Time

Post author:Thomas Hochwarter
Post published:August 7, 2022

Scientists in Germany have detected microplastic particles in human liver samples for the first time. Researchers at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf took liver, kidney and spleen samples from six…

The scientists detected microplastic particles in each of the sediment samples taken – between 215 and 1596 particles per kilogram of sediment. (AWI/Newsflash)

Plastic Waste Has Turned Deep Sea Into Trash Can Of Oceans

Post author:Michael Leidig
Post published:July 29, 2022

The incredible diversity in the deepest levels of the oceans is being threatened with extinction by micro-plastics, a new study has revealed. The shock findings emerged after scientists studied the…

Given the almost complete absence of chimpanzee fossils, the genetic information from current populations is crucial for describing their evolutionary history, according to German and Spanish scientists. (Pixabay/Newsflash)

Scientists Create World’s Largest Chimp DNA Genome From Poop

Post author:Joseph Golder
Post published:June 16, 2022

An international team of experts has compiled the world's largest wild chimp genomic catalogue by sequencing DNA found in hundreds of samples of ape poo. The team was led by…

A grave at the Derecske-Bikas-dulo site from the Deri Museum located in the Hungarian city of Debrecen. (Szilvia Dobrontey-David/Newsflash)

Scientists Solve Mystery Of Warlike Ancient Tribe

Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
Post published:April 21, 2022

Scientists have solved a 1,400-year-old mystery concerning the genetic background of the Avar civilisation by evaluating DNA samples of over 60 individuals discovered in elite graves. Researchers who analysed the…

This illustration shows a concept for a set of future robots working together to ferry back samples collected on the surface of Mars by NASA's Perseverance rover. (NASA,ESA,JPL-Caltech/Newsflash)

NASA Reveals Historic Plan To Return Mars Samples Back To Earth

Post author:Peter Barker
Post published:October 21, 2021

After NASA's Perseverance Rover became the first spacecraft to collect samples on the Red Planet, the incredible plan on how to get the Martian objects back to earth has been…

The drone upside down on the bottom of Lake Zurich

Postal Drone Carrying Hospital Samples Crashes Into Lake

Post author:Koen Berghuis
Post published:February 1, 2019

Police divers have been called in to rescue a state-of-the-art postal drone after it crashed into a Swiss lake and sank while carrying blood samples from a hospital to a…