A plate of cookies featuring various science-related motifs (microscope, brain, book). Accompanied by the text “#ScienceSnack by the University of Bonn.”

🍪🔬 Introducing #ScienceSnacks — bite-sized insights into research at the University of Bonn. Short, clear, and easy to digest. Stay tuned for a regular dose of science in a snackable size!

Researchers standing on the "RheinKrake"“ — a floating litter trap installed in 2022 near the Zoobrücke bridge in Cologne. A large amount of trash can be seen that has already been collected by the “RheinKrake.”

🗑️ #ScienceSnack: Some 53,000 items of litter flow past Cologne daily in the Rhine – an amount many times larger than previously believed. That's the “dirty” result from a citizen science project led by @unibonn.bsky.social. Read more here: https://f.mtr.cool/mblomiuhmr
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Researchers Prof. Boas Pucker, Nancy Choudhary, and Marie Hagedorn in the lab. They hold colorful pumpkins (blue, pink, purple) in their hands and look frightened. Around them are spiders and spider webs. A “spooky” photo montage withthe researchers, made for Halloween.

🎃 Why are (Halloween) pumpkins orange – and not pink or blue? This secret is explored by @bpucker.bsky.social, @nancy-choudhary.bsky.social and Marie Hagedorn. Their research examines how carotenoids took over, making Jack O’Lanterns forever orange: www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/colo.... Happy Halloween!

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