'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).

The NBC front page appearence...

...of a spectacular Micronaut Pollen Gallery almost ended up with the collapse of my server, two days ago. And thousands of curious visitors keep coming in... !

"Martin, everyone loves your works, and we'd love to see more...", explains NBC Multimedia Editor, Jonathan D. Woods.

Micronaut in the press

An interview about the artist has been released by the Swiss Centre for Allergy, Skin and Asthma (AHA!).

The PDF is available in French and German:

- Faszination des Unsichtbaren (D)

- Monde fascinante de l'invisible (F)

'Es liegt was in der Luft'

Der Artikel über Pollen von Micronaut ist nun auch in Deutsch erhältlich.

Dies in der aktuellen Ausgabe von National Geographic (April 2010), erhältlich im Buchhandel oder an jedem Kiosk.

- Artikel 'Liebe liegt in der Luft'

- Bildgalerie 'Liebe liegt in der Luft'

National Geographic: 'Love is in the air...'

...is the sweet title for Micronaut's first article, published by the National Geographic (Dec 2009).

Merely known for their allergic potential, pollen grains will probably ruin a couple of our days next spring again. Whatsoever, what most of us don't know is that they are extremely beautiful and surely range among the most fascinating living things on earth.

>> check it out !

National Geographic: vote for a Micronaut-cover... !!

"Pomagajte uredniku pri izbiri naslovnice. Kliknite na tisto, ki vam je najbolj všeč!"

...as it turns out you just need to click on the link below and then on one of the images (if possible on the one with the geranium pistil, please ;-). If you have installed more than one browser on your computer, it's possible to vote from different browsers, e.g. Firefox, Safari, Opera, Explorer, ...

After successful voting, your cursor will change from a small white hand into a black arrow and in parallel, the current percentage count will be displayed above each image... it currently looks very promising.

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addendum (25th Nov 2009): voting closed with Micronaut in pole-position, looking forward to see this cover printed

Many thanks to all voters !!

new header on Micronaut-the blog!

What the hek is this?! Well, it was a lot of work but unfortunately the silly flower seemed not to harbour a single pollen grain at all. So I tried to get close enough to maybe find some nasty bacteria at least -to make the best out of the situation. But what resembles bacteria at first sight turns out to be the smallest pollen grains in the kingdom of plants. Indeed, those marvellous things measure only 4.5µm in length and still hoste the complete male genome safely inside. It's a miracle! © Martin Oeggerli / www.Micronaut.ch, 2009. All rights reserved.