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• Chirality control: New ways for active ingredients
  A research team from Prof. Benjamin List's department at the Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung has solved a long-elusive riddle of chemistry: the synthesis of stable, open-chain amines that c...
• Heavy atomic nuclei are not as symmetric as previously thought
  Many heavy atomic nuclei are shaped more or less like squashed rugby balls than fully inflated ones, a theoretical study by RIKEN nuclear physicists has found1. This unexpected finding overturns th...
• A new approach to protect people and nature from the hidden risks of chemical cocktails
  Every day, people and organisms in the environment are potentially exposed to dozens or even hundreds of chemicals, from plastics and pesticides to cosmetics and cleaning agents. While each che...
• Wastewater from most countries favours non-resistant bacteria
  A global study led by researchers at the Centre for Antibiotic Resistance Research (CARe) in Gothenburg, Sweden shows that municipal wastewater is not always the breeding ground for antibiotic resi...
• PFAS in ski wax: chemicals on the ski trail
  When the forever chemicals known as PFAS enter the environment, they remain there for generations and can harm humans and nature. Despite increasing bans, many PFAS are still in circulation - inclu...
• Building bone marrow model entirely from human cells
  Our body's "blood factory" consists of specialized tissue made up of bone cells, blood vessels, nerves and other cell types. Now, researchers have succeeded for the first time in recreating thi...
• Scientists call on better regulation for chemical cocktails in Europe
  In a policy brief published in Science, scientists call on European Union for a new approach to protect people and nature from the hidden risks of chemical cocktails. Every day, people and all ...
• Compact space spectrometer for sustainable agriculture
  Researchers at Fraunhofer IOF in collaboration with Airbus have developed a hyperspectral spectrometer as part of the "Rainbow" project, funded by the European Space Agency (ESA). The technology en...
• Iron supplementation based on nanofibers from oat proteins and iron nanoparticles
  Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed and tested a new compound to combat iron deficiency. The body can absorb this iron virtually twice as fast as iron in current supplements. It could effectiv...
• Determine and eliminate microplastics in the inflow and outflow of wastewater treatment plants
  The danger of microplastics for the environment and health has become increasingly recognised in recent years. They enter the water cycle via wastewater from households and rainwater discharged fro...
• Recycling ions to investigate the heaviest elements
  A novel method has been developed at CERN's ISOLDE facility that shall make it possible to improve our understanding of the chemical properties and reactivity of the rarest and least researched ele...
• Performing spectroscopy on single antiprotons
  RIKEN researchers have applied powerful coherent spectroscopy techniques to a most unlikely object-a single particle of antimatter. This should allow scientists to probe the differences between mat...
• Breaking barriers in bioconjugation chemistry with aromatic carbocations
  A team led by Prof. Marcos Garcia Suero at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) has found a way to overcome a long-standing limitation: performing a carbocation reaction in peptid...
• Preventing dangerous short circuits in lithium batteries
  Dendrites are considered the most dangerous destroyers of lithium batteries - tiny metal structures that can cause short circuits. In the worst case, they can cause batteries to burn or explode. ...
• Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are eliminated from the body faster with certain medicines
  Certain medicines can cause the environmental toxin PFAS to be eliminated from the body faster, according to a study at the University of Gothenburg. The findings strengthen the research area and h...
• A new detail has been added to the "nuclear periodic table"
  For the first time, a research team from the University of Cologne has observed the electron capture decay of technetium-98, an isotope of the chemical element technetium (Tc). Electron capture...
• Solid-state chemistry for high-energy cells
  Lithium-sulfur batteries represent a promising alternative to conventional lithium-ion systems. To overcome existing technological hurdles of this cell chemistry, the Fraunhofer Institute for Mater...
• Pulsed electrolysis opens a path toward sustainable production of ammonia and urea
  Nitrogen-based fertilizers are essential for modern agriculture, and compounds like ammonia and urea are also widely used in industry. However, their conventional production and use pose major envi...
• Programmable nanorobots made of DNA
  It is the nanotechnological vision: tiny little robots performing highly specific tasks in the human body, such as delivering pharmaceutical agents or repairing defective cells. Such programmable n...