diatoms and extremophiles revisited

The roundup of German pieces Febuary to June 2023 reveals some returns to familiar themes:

Malaria und Coviderkenntnisse
Nachrichten aus der Chemie Volume 71, Issue 5, May 2023, Pages 63-65
free to read via Wiley Online Library
related content in English: New beginnings for malaria research

Ausgeforscht: Wer hat an der Uhr gedreht?
Nachrichten aus der Chemie Volume 71, Issue 5, May 2023, Page 114
restricted access via Wiley Online Library

Die Spitzenmuster der Kieselalgen
Nachrichten aus der Chemie Volume 71, Issue 3, March 2023, Pages 72-74
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related content in English: Proteins behind diatoms' intricate nano-scale shells revealed (news story in Chemistry World, which I forgot to blog about, open access if you haven't accessed anything else in CW this month. I think it's a quota of two free articles per month.)

Ausgeforscht: Ketchup ausgequetscht
Nachrichten aus der Chemie Volume 71, Issue 3, March 2023, Page 106
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At the beginning of the year I also revisited the ecology and potential applications of extremophiles (as covered in Life on the Edge and in the eponymous chapter of Astrobiology) at the request of an industry magazine called tomorrow. They published my German text here, and their own translation here.

In the course of the diatom story I also learned that there is a new book out about them which looks fascinating:

although sadly in the rush to produce a news story I didn't get round to actually reading it.