Great suspense to be expected...

An impressive private collection of parasites (gift of René Gerber, Switzerland) allows Micronaut to investigate "a mysterious world full of surprises".

Despite their notoriously bad reputation, parasites are outstanding -and often surprisingly beautiful- animals, which show remarkable adaptations to their way of life and host.

Believe it or not - you will see soon enough.

Open heart surgery...

Micronaut's ultra-fast new notebook, as it is being pimped with an additional 1 TB storage.

Drowning in the snow...

Around X-mas usually dozens of Micronaut calendars have to be shipped daily to places in Portugal, Italy, Canada, Taiwan, Australia, or the USA.

Whilst the vast majority travels fast and save, one piece got lost just around the corner (Germany). The german post has finally returned it with 3 months delay. However, the address turns out to be perfectly right (initially the official reason for the delivery failure) and the german post continued to explain, that they were unable to deliver the envelope due to heavy snow in December 2010. Right, but to return the package was no problem... must be kind of logic, but I don't get it.

Needless to say the customer will get his piece for free - at least if it does not fall victim to the upcoming summer heat... I keep you posted ;-)

'Image of the month' - March 2011...

The new image of the month on Micronaut.ch shows the beautiful pollen grains of a common snowdrop (magnification 1'370:1).