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• Saving platinum in hydrogen production
  Hydrogen is expected to become an important energy carrier of the future, particularly for industrial applications. But this requires climate-friendly technologies that split water into hydrogen an...
• Bright crystals - Moving chalcogenide materials closer to application
  Chalcogenides are versatile materials that are the subject of active research for solar cells, photodetectors and other light and energy conversion applications. Researchers at Empa's Transport at ...
• Improving the environmental footprint of polystyrene through innovative material additives
  Polystyrene is one of the most important plastics worldwide, but it is still considered far from sustainable. Its production relies on fossil resources, requires large amounts of energy, and the ma...
• How biological processes can help with recycling
  They are durable, cheap and everyday life is now hardly imaginable without them: plastics. More then 400 million metric tons are produced every year. As a large proportion is only insufficiently re...
• The lingering legacy of Chernobyl: Radioactive particles significantly more stable than assumed
  Four decades after the 1986 nuclear disaster, researchers at Leibniz University Hannover and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) examined six tiny, highly radioactive fragments that wer...
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry: They made chemistry choose a mirror image
  The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan, Université Paris-Sud, France and Kenso Soai, Tokyo University of Science, Japan, "for...
• Groundbreaking research on optogenetics wins the Nobel Prize in Medicine
  Karl Deisseroth and Peter Hegemann, both members of the Leopoldina, have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. They share the prize with Georg Nagel for their discoveries of ...
• New study provides insights into the evolution of complex cells
  Asgard archaea, our closest known microbial relatives, play a key role in current models of the origin of more complex organisms, known as eukaryotes. However, their biology has so far been poorly ...
• Liquid chromatography: predicting the retention times of small molecules more reliably
  Whether in drug discovery, environmental analysis or metabolomics: anyone analysing complex biological samples often needs to identify the small molecules they contain. Researchers at Friedrich...
• Gaining new insights into the life of bacteria with gel and water
  Chlamydia organise their genetic material with the help of lipids. This is shown by a new study from the University of Würzburg. This unexpected alliance could change our current understanding of h...
• Rewriting the rulebook of RNA
  RNA modifications are a fundamental mechanism regulating biological processes in all living cells. An international research team, including Sebastian Glatt of the University of Veterinary Medicine...
• Fighting cell death with sulfur
  Antioxidants are well covered in advertising. They protect cells by neutralizing free radicals before these can cause cellular damage. While some antioxidants, such as certain vitamins, are obtaine...