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• How new substances form - researchers simulate processes in bubble column
  Inside of a bubble column, gas bubbles rise in a liquid. While this happens, chemical processes take place at their outer layers where different substances are in contact. About 90 percent of all p...
• Bruker Acquires Prairie Technologies
  Bruker Corporation announced that it has acquired Prairie Technologies, Inc., a provider of life science fluorescence microscopy products. The acquisition strengthens Bruker's position in life scie...
• Soil bacteria influence atmospheric self-cleaning
  An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz found out that bacteria in the upper-most soil layer release considerable amounts of hydrogen nitrite, bett...
• Massive groundwater withdrawals promote arsenic transport into an uncontaminated aquifer
  The 6.5 million inhabitants of Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, are facing a growing threat: as more and more water is pumped from a deep - previously uncontaminated - aquifer, arsenic-laden water from sh...
• Klaus Müllen honored with the Adolf-von-Baeyer-Denkmünze
  Professor Klaus Müllen, director at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) in Mainz, was honored with the Adolf-von-Baeyer commemorative medal by the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker,...
• Agilent Opens Spectroscopy Technology Innovation Center
  Agilent Technologies announced the opening of its Spectroscopy Technology Innovation Center in Mulgrave, Australia. The $25 million center houses cutting-edge research and testing laboratories as w...
• Really clean cleanrooms
  Extreme purity is a basic prerequisite in the production of semiconductors. The production of minuscule semiconductor components requires a cleanroom to minimize contamination from airborne particl...
• Sorting out top-class wines
  No vintners want their wine to have a bitter note to it. Now, new sorting equipment with optical recognition can guarantee this is never the case. The machine sorts the harvest into quality grades ...