2024
News articles and vlog reporting about our Merseyside urban hedgehog project:
- Liverpool Echo: Experts spent months tracking hedgehogs and what they found surprised them
- Country file: How sleep patterns could be helping hedgehogs adapt to climate change
- Liverpool World: Liverpool research project studies personality of urban hedgehogs as numbers stabilise
2021
Press release University of Queensland on Grigg et al. (2021). Biol Rev 97: 766-801: Warm-bodied ties between mammals and birds more ancient than previously recognised
2019
News articles on our publication on telomere dynamics in dormice hibernating at warmer winter temperatures (Nowack et al. (2019) Biol. Lett.1520190466)- in German.
- V. Schmidt (2019) „Tiefer Winterschlaf schadet den Zellen kleiner Nagetiere“ Die Presse 6.12.19
- H. Derka (2019) „Winterschlaf der Tiere: Cool bleiben hat seinen Preis“ Kurier Österreich 4.11.19
- “Winterschlaf hat seinen Preis” Podcast Ö1 Wissen Aktuell 16.10.19 and as article on Science.orf.at 15.10.19
Press release on our publication about a new mechanism of heat production discovered in wild boar (Nowack et al. Sci Rep 9: 6378): N. Götschl “Important evolutionary step discovered: body heat without shivering” IDW 17.06.19
2016
News articles on pygmy possums that are able to smell smoke while in torpor (Nowack et al. (2016) Sci Nat 103(9-10):73):
- N.Herzberg (2016) “Hiberner d’une narine” Le Monde 31.08.15. (French article)
- S. Vignieri (2016) “Wake up!” Science 353 (6305): 1246 DOI: 10.1126/science.353.6305.1246-a
- “Pygmy possums & fire” Science Update 31.08.16. Podcast
- “Hibernating pygmy-possums can sense danger even while dormant” Several press release articles, 22.08.16
Our publication on echidnas using torpor during fires (Nowack et al. (2016) Proc R Soc B 283: 20160382) got quite a bit of media presence. So here are just a few examples:
- R. Gray (2016) “When confronted with a raging wildfire, echidnas go to sleep” BBC Earth 14.05.16
- J. Janaki Lenin (2016) “How do echidnas survive wildfires?” The Wire 25.04.16
- R. Meaden (2016) “Cool echidnas survive the fire” Proceedings Publishing Blog 13.04.16
- T. Watson (2016) “Cool critters: Australia´s echidnas shed light on fireproofing” USA Today 13.04.16
2015
Media outlets on our article on sugar gliders snoozing through the storm (Nowack et al. (2015) Sci Rep 5, doi:10.1038/srep11243):
- S. Vignieri (2015) “How to weather a storm”. Science magazine 349 (6244): 151-152. DOI: 10.1126/science.349.6244.151-e
- “Just sleep it off” The Armidale Express. 24.06.2015.
- L. Levesque (2015) “Going torpid to pass through hard times”. J Exp Biol 218: 3348-3350.
Media outlets on our article about the use of torpor during the colonisation of new habitats (Nowack & Dausmann (2015) Mammal Rev 45: 117–127)
- P. Charter (2015) “Snoozing and cruising to new habitats – a new theory on how mammals colonised islands”. Science Nutshell.
- “Energiesparend: So wurde Madagaskar besiedelt” Hamburger Abendblatt. 25.03.2015
- Press release University of Hamburg: Biologinnen untersuchen Rolle von Heterothermie bei der Besiedlung von Lebensräumen
2013
- Stead (2013) “Arousal from torpor: a bushbaby’s methods”. J Exp Biol 216, iii. Editorial article on the results of Nowack et al. (2013) J Exp Biol 216: 3811-3817.
2009
- TV contribution on my work with bushbabies on SABC News in South Africa, broadcasted in 11 different languages on the 2nd of August 2009