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• Cyanobacteria produce methane
  Cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, are among the most common organisms on Earth and are notorious for forming toxins. A recent study has now shown for the first time that these bacteria...
• Determining the atomic structure of natural products more rapidly and accurately
  Many drugs are derived from natural products. But before natural products can be exploited, chemists must first determine their structure and stereochemistry. This can be a major challenge, particu...
• Plants absorb lead from perovskite solar cells more than expected
  Lead from metal-organic perovskite compounds can be absorbed particularly easily by plants. The bioavailability is significantly higher than that of lead from inorganic compounds as found in batter...
• International Freezer Challenge 2020: Optimizing your cold storage practices?
  Global warming is a challenge for mankind on earth. Sustainability discussions primarily focus on energy consumption of devices. Even environmentally friendly and energy efficient ultra-low tempera...
• Public consultation: new recommendations for applicants on whole genome sequence analysis of microorganisms
  EFSA is consulting on its statement on how to conduct and describe the whole genome sequence (WGS) analysis of microorganisms added to food and feed. The document provides guidance to applicant...
• Watching complex molecules at work
  A new method of infrared spectroscopy developed at BESSY II makes single-measurement observation and analysis of very fast as well as irreversible reaction mechanisms in molecules feasible for the ...
• Solid-state nanopore fabrication by automated controlled breakdown
  A nanopore is a tiny hole in a thin membrane with a diameter of around a billionth of a meter, or about the width of a single DNA molecule. The potential applications of these nanopores are so dive...
• A more sustainable photochemistry
  Sustainable chemical applications need to be able to employ renewable energy sources, renewable raw materials, and Earth-abundant elements. However, to date many techniques have only been possible ...
• Fluor Pilot Plant goes digital
  The new app enables the user to learn the whole chemical engineering process by operating a simulated plant environment which matches the real Fluor Pilot Plant at Surrey. On the app, users are abl...
• Antibacterial liquid metals to fight drug-resistant superbugs
  Researchers have used liquid metals to develop new bacteria-destroying technology that could be the answer to the deadly problem of antibiotic resistance. The technology uses nano-sized particles o...
• The world's first monolayer amorphous film
  Researchers from NUS have synthesised the world's first one-atom-thick amorphous material. Previously thought to be impossible, the discovery of monolayer amorphous carbon (MAC) could finally settl...
• A new form of glass through molecular entanglement
  Physicists at the University of Vienna in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research have discovered a new type of glass formed by long, cyclic molecules. The scientists succe...
• Ultrafast chemistry in water caused by ionising radiation observed for the first time
  An international research team jointly led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and Germany's Deutsches...
• New agents to fight multidrug-resistant germs
  Resistance to antibiotics is on the rise worldwide. Fraunhofer scientists have joined forces with partners in the Phage4Cure project to explore alternatives to antibiotics. One objective is to vanq...
• Tiny pharmaceuticals in the environment
  Nanomedicine is making headways. However, the tiny nanoparticles that are being used as carriers for drugs could find their way into water, soil and air. Empa researchers are investigating potentia...
• New online tool to improve the environmental risk assessment of chemicals
  JRC scientists have contributed to an international project to improve the environmental risk assessment of chemicals which has built a high quality ecotoxicological database called EnviroTox and d...
• Lossless transmission of signals
  New experiments with magnetically doped topological insulators at BESSY II have revealed possible ways of lossless signal transmission that involve a surprising self-organisation phenomenon. In the...
• How bacteria control their cell cycle
  Researchers at the Biozentrum of the University have demonstrated how bacteria coordinate cell division with the replication of their genetic material. In an interdisciplinary study they explain wh...
• Hot candidate for new physics with ultracold molecules
  Researchers from the Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max-Planck Society in Berlin identified aluminum monofluoride (AlF) as an excellent molecule to be laser-cooled to ultra-low temperatures with a hi...
• Chemistry-based solutions could gut global CO₂ emissions by one quarter
  On the occasion of the UN Climate Change Conference COP 25, the International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA) released its latest study "Enabling the Future: Chemistry Innovations for a Low...