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Ears for Icarus

https://www.mpg.de/11939385/ears-for-icarus

On 13 February, a Russian rocket carried the antenna of the Icarus mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The Icarus on-board computer was thus joined by another key component of the orbiting animal tracking system. Using the system developed by scientists from the Max Planck Society in cooperation with the Russian space agency Roskosmos, the German Aerospace Center and the University of Konstanz, researchers around the world will be able to study the movements of animals and determine the conditions in which they live.
Because the trajectory of the space station moves 2,500 kilometres to the west each

Post from Ghana

https://www.mpg.de/16971635/post-from-ghana

Biologist Anna Proß, a PhD student at the MPI for Ornithology in Seewiesen, followed the migratory birds to Ghana in Africa. She reports on early rising, sunrises, animal encounters, culinary revelations and African hospitality.
And then we saw it – a Green Mamba, one of the most venomous snakes in West Africa

Black Death Mortality not as Widespread as Long Thought

https://www.mpg.de/18236353/0210-wisy-black-death-mortality-not-as-widespread-as-long-thought-9347732-x

A new study uses pollen data to evaluate the second plague pandemic’s mortality at a regional scale across Europe. Results show that the impacts of the Black Death varied substantially from region to region and demonstrate the importance of cross-disciplinary approaches for understanding past – and present – pandemics.
The Black Death, which plagued Europe, West Asia and North Africa from 1347-1352,