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• The contribution of particulate matter to forest decline
  Air pollution is related to forest decline and also appears to attack the protecting wax on tree leaves and needles. Bonn University scientists have now discovered a responsible mechanism: particul...
• Pesticides significantly reduce biodiversity in aquatic environments
  he pesticides, many of which are currently used in Europe and Australia, are responsible for reducing the regional diversity of invertebrates in streams and rivers by up to 42 percent, researchers ...
• Analytik Jena presents the history of analytical measuring technology in its new company museum
  Analytik Jena AG's company museum presents the exciting history of analytical measuring technology in Jena to visitors, customers, business partners and interested guests over 70 square meters, and...
• New method for single cell analysis
  If half of a cell population were coloured white and the other half were coloured black, scientists should think all cells are grey. Conventional methods average over thousands of cells, overlookin...
• ZEISS to acquire Xradia to complement its microscopy business
  ZEISS announced the planned acquisition of the US-based Xradia, Inc. Xradia is an medium-size company providing innovative 3D X-ray microscopes for industrial and academic research applications. Th...
• Luminous Bacterial Proteins Detect Chemicals in Water
  While residual medications don't belong in the water, trace metals from industrial process waters handled by the recycling industry are, in contrast, valuable resources. Scientists at the Helmholtz...
• Plasma in a bag
  Plastic bags coated by plasma at atmospheric pressure serve as a GMP laboratory for the cultivation of adherent cells. The plasma is used to modify the internal surface of the bag specifically, so ...
• Intelligent Protective Clothing for High-Output Lasers
  In an EU project under the leadership of the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH), passive and active protective systems for jackets, trousers, aprons and gloves are being developed. This clothing off...
• Europe's new X-ray laser reaches important milestone
  An important milestone was reached on Germany's largest science construction site: the underground civil engineering work for the X-ray laser European XFEL has been completed, and the underground c...
• Purifying dairy wastewater - at the same time producing electricity
  n an EU-funded project the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB in Stuttgart is developing, together with industrial and scientific partners, a modular system to p...
• Trajan Completes Acquisition of SGE Business
  Trajan Scientific and Medical has completed its acquisition of the Chromatography and Liquid Handling businesses of SGE Analytical Science, "SGE". SGE was founded by Ern Dawes in Melbourne Australi...
• A quantum simulator for magnetic materials
  Physicists at ETH Zurich have developed a quantum simulator that allows arranging atoms in a way that they mimic the behaviour of electrons in magnetic materials. The experiment opens up the possib...