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• Comeback of the Biphenomycins
  Biphenomycins, natural products derived from bacteria, show excellent antimicrobial activity, but have long remained out of reach for drug development. The main obstacle was the limited understandi...
• Urea: The Hidden Fuel for Ocean Microbes
  Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology find that urea is a major energy source for ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) in the open ocean, while coastal AOA prefer ammonium. Th...
• Hybrid state of matter discovered: New material is solid and liquid at the same time
  Solid, liquid and gaseous - these are the familiar main forms of matter. Scientists at Ulm University and the University of Nottingham have now proven the existence of a completely new state of mat...