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• World Metrology Day: Power to the constants!
  If you come across someone who can tell you by heart and without cheating what a kilogram is after 20 May 2019, beware! It is probably a particular kind of scientist, a metrologist, who is still ov...
• Microplastics in freshwaters - the risks to the environment
  As small as a grain of dust - but of great global significance. The word microplastics is familiar to many, but the dangers are virtually unexplored. In recent years, plastic pollution has become a...
• Insects supply chitin as a raw material for the textile industry
  Fossil based chemicals are often used in textile processing. That is why the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB is researching sustainable biobased alternatives....
• Fuels From Air-conditioning Systems
  Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Toronto have proposed a method enabling air conditioning and ventilation systems to produce synthetic fuels from car...
• New material also reveals new quasiparticles
  Researchers at PSI have investigated a novel crystalline material that exhibits electronic properties that have never been seen before. It is a crystal of aluminum and platinum atoms arranged in a ...
• Longest half-life ever directly measured
  The universe is almost 14 billion years old, which is an inconceivable length of time by human standards. Compared to some physical processes, however, it is but a moment. There are radioactive nuc...
• Carbon nanoelectrode - Particle at the stick
  Since they are so tiny, it is difficult to investigate single nanoparticles. However, this is exactly what researchers are aiming for in order to tailor their properties. A novel approach: particle...
• 3D printing of biological tissue
  The future of medicine is biological - and scientists hope we will soon be using 3D-printed biologically functional tissue to replace irreparably damaged tissue in the body. A team of researcher...
• Unique insights into concrete - watching concrete explode
  Even if concrete is not flammable, it can be hazardous in tunnel fires: high-performance concrete can explode at high temperatures. Although the phenomenon is well known, the physics behind it have...
• Polymers to give early warning signs
  Researchers at the University of Fribourg's Adolphe Merkle Institute (AMI) and Hokkaido University in Japan have developed a method to tailor the properties of stress-indicating molecules that can ...
• New 3D microscope to visualise fast biological processes
  Researchers from EMBL Heidelberg have combined their expertise to develop a new type of microscope. The revolutionary new light-field microscopy system makes it possible to study fast biological pr...
• Microscopic Protective Covering for Better Batteries
  Lithium-ion batteries are far superior to other rechargeable battery systems due to their long lifetime and high energy density. However, for many applications, such as electric cars, they still fa...
• Flexible circuits for 3D printing
  A research cooperation between the University of Hamburg and DESY has developed a process suitable for 3D printing that can be used to produce transparent and mechanically flexible electronic circu...
• Unlimited access to microbiological research data
  The scientists Dr. Lorenz Reimer, Joaquim Sardà and Prof. Dr. Jörg Overmann from the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures have extended the database BacDive ...