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• New AI method revolutionises the design of enzymes
  Researchers at TU Graz and the University of Graz can use the technology to construct artificial biocatalysts. These new enzymes are significantly faster, more stable and more versatile than previo...
• New X-ray method promises advances in histology
  Histological tissue sections are part of everyday medical practice. With the help of dyes, they reveal tissue structures and pathological changes. However, the method requires labor-intensive steps...
• Climate-friendly generation of formate and hydrogen from the waste product glycerol
  Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have developed a method which gives access to the valuable raw materials formate and hydrogen from the waste product glycerol. Formates are ...
• New usage guide introduces the software suite to a broad audience
  The CP2K open-source package is among the top three most widely used research software suites worldwide for simulating the behavior of atoms and molecules. Among other applications, CP2K plays an i...
• Energy flow in semiconductors: new insights thanks to ultrafast spectroscopy
  For the first time and with unprecedented accuracy, a team of researchers from the University of Basel has observed unique energy flow mechanisms in a semiconductor material following excitation by...
• A new sustainable raw material for chemistry
  A research project conducted by the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung shows how biomass can be used as a raw material for chemical products instead of petroleum. The scientists have now publi...
• Behind Nature's Blueprints - 'theoretical rulebook' of self-assembly
  Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The challenge: the process seemed random and notoriously difficult to predict....
• New CRISPR mechanism discovered
  The CRISPR "gene scissors" have become an important basis for genome-editing technologies in many fields, ranging from biology and medicine to agriculture and industry. A team from the Helmholtz In...
• Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces Strategic Collaboration With NVIDIA
  Thermo Fisher Scientific announced a strategic collaboration with NVIDIA to power AI-based solutions and laboratory automation at scale. The effort will leverage the NVIDIA Artificial Intelligence ...
• Novel form of water
  An international research team led by scientists from the University of Rostock, École Polytechnique in France, and Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf has discovered a previously unknown form of ...
• Coffee as a Staining Agent Substitute in Electron Microscopy
  To ensure that the tissue structures of biological samples are easily recognisable under the electron microscope, they are treated with a staining agent. The standard staining agent for this is ura...
• Rapid On-Site Detection of Food Fraud
  Counterfeit or low-quality products - such as olive oil made from dyed rape-seed oil - are often difficult or impossible to identify at a glance. A mobile gas chromatography sensor system is now be...
• BacDrive: Largest database for bacterial information supasses 100,000 strain mark
  The Bacterial Diversity Database BacDive is the worldwide largest knowledge base of standardized strain-level bacterial and archaeal information. The database is a comprehensive resource covering t...
• What determines the fate of a T cell?
  Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center have found that a cellular housekeeping mechanism called autophagy plays a major role in ensuring that T stem cells undergo normal cell division. The findings...
• 'Hovering' drops
  Tiny drops of oil can resist a fluid flow and hover at a constant position. Researchers at TU Darmstadt have now documented and investigated this phenomenon for the first time. They made use of the...
• Rare earth elements - Of peptides and the origin of life
  Elements from the group of rare earth metals are of great importance today, also in technical applications. The Bioinorganic Chemistry group at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) is conduct...
• 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...