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• Neutron beams reveal how antibodies cluster in solution
  Results from neutron spin-echo analysis at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) and the National Center of Neutron Research (NCNR) in the United States are an important advance towards enabling subcuta...
• Observing electron clouds, scientists could improve chemical processes
  With the help of an X-ray laser, a team of international researchers-including scientists from European XFEL, a new major science facility in the Hamburg metropolitan area, DESY, and the Max Planck...
• Computational chemistry as atomistic magnifying glass for biological systems
  Studying biological macromolecules such as proteins in their entirety on the atomistic level is a huge experimental challenge. Prof. Dr. Christine Peter from the University of Konstanz is therefore...
• Discussion about labelling and reporting schemes for nanomaterials in consumer products in the EU
  JRC experts provide an overview on how EU legislation addresses nanomaterials, and recapitulate issues relevant for the on-going discussion on transparency and requests for more information regardi...
• Newly developed method makes the dynamics of larger, insoluble proteins visible
  Proteins perform vital tasks in all organisms. In doing so, they often alter their three-dimensional structure so that they can interact with different binding partners. A German-French research te...
• MRS Innovation in Materials Characterization Award 2014 for development of new tool for optical imaging
  Innovation in Materials Characterization Award honors an outstanding advance in materials characterization that notably increases knowledge of the structure, composition, in situ behavior under out...
• Important mechanism of protein folding elucidated
  Proteins are responsible for nearly every essential process of life. Their form and structure (or their "fold") are of crucial importance for their functionality. Scientists at the Max Planck Insti...
• Light waves allow preferred bond breaking in symmetric molecules
  An international team of scientists discovered a new quantum control mechanism to selectively shake and break C-H bonds in symmetric hydrocarbon molecules with the waveform of femtosecond laser pul...
• How immune cells use steroids
  Researchers at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have discovered that some immune cells turn themselves off by producing a steroid. The findin...
• At the frontiers of magnetism
  The smallest possible magnets are the size of a single atom. Now scientists have reached the limits of optimisation of the tiny particles: they have created single atom magnets that are as strong a...
• Graphene may cause negative environmental impacts if spilled
  Graphen, material that could change electronics industry, is shown to be very mobile in water and likely to cause negative environmental impacts if spilledIn a first-of-its-kind study of how a mate...
• High-efficiency water treatment using light using a novel UV-light system
  Many harmful substances in waste water stubbornly resist being broken down by biological waste water treatment plants. Fraunhofer researchers have developed a photochemical reaction system in which...
• The thinnest feasible membrane filters made of graphene
  A new nano-membrane made out of the "wonder material" graphene is extremely light and breath-able. Not only can this open the door to a new generation of functional waterproof clothing, but also to...
• Protein identified as important trigger of antiviral response
  Cells have to protect themselves: against damage in their genetic material for one thing, but also against attack from the outside, by viruses for example. They do this by using different mechanism...
• Nanocellulose sponges to combat oil pollution
  A new, absorbable material from Empa wood research could be of assistance in future oil spill accidents: a chemically modified nanocellulose sponge. The light material absorbs the oil spill, remain...
• Rancimat method used to investigate antioxidant and antitumor activities of alkyl caffeates in edible oils
  In a recent research study, Wang et al. investigated the antioxidant activity, antitumor property, and oxidation stability of edible oil with added alkyl caffeates. In order to evaluate the inducti...
• New pulse monitor advances data analysis at X-ray free-electron lasers
  Researchers from DESY and the U.S. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have developed a new tool to measure individual pulses of X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) with unprecedented time resoluti...
• Nanomaterial Outsmarts Ions
  Ions are an essential tool in chip manufacturing, but these electrically charged atoms can also be used to produce nano-sieves with homogeneously distributed pores. A particularly large number of e...
• New tool for Joint Lab to investigate the chemistry of nature
  The Aziz' team at the Joint Laboratory between Freie Universität Berlin and HZB has built a laser-based tabletop setup which generates ultrashort XUV light pulses and achieves their monochromatizat...
• New insight into mysterious electronic phenomenon
  For more than a quarter of a century, high-temperature superconductors - materials that can transmit electric current without any resistance - have perplexed scientists who seek to understand the p...