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• New technique uses X-rays to find landmarks when combining fluorescence and electron microscopy
  Imagine that your dog buried your wedding ring in the backyard, but you do not know where. Scientists face a similar challenge when they want to analyse individual cells located deep within tissues...
• Fostering the detection of "legal highs"
  "Legal highs" are new psychoactive substances (NPS) with similar - and sometimes stronger- effects than illicit drugs such as cannabis, heroin and cocaine. They are rather cheap and easily produced...
• Hydride-ion conduction makes its first appearance
  Japanese scientists demonstrate the first electrochemical reaction based on hydride ions in an oxide-based solid-state cell for potential next-generation batteries. Ionic transport has been stud...
• A novel device for better plutonium analysis
  In collaboration with professionals from the Finish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, JRC scientists built a new conversion electron spectrometer for analysing the isotopic composition of plu...
• New insights into the nature and function of hydrogen-oxidizing enzymes
  Hydrogenases are enzymes that split molecular hydrogen into protons and electron, which are conversely used to form hydrogen. Whether or not a particular hydrogenase is oxygen-tolerant is determine...
• Fingerprint of hydrogen bonding captured in experiments
  A team from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has been able for the first time to measure how new bonds influence molecules: they have reconstructed the "energy landscape" of acetone molecules using measure...
• New insights into protein synthesis
  By studying the synthesis process of proteins encoded by over 1,000 genes in E. coli bacteria, researchers at Tokyo Tech in collaboration with colleagues at Kyoto Sangyo University, have shown that...
• Nano-structural features of barite crystals observed
  For the first time a barite sample was investigated by applying electron microscopy and atom probe tomography in a complementary approach to characterize its inner microstructure. Pores covering th...
• New electrode for ion concentration analysis does not require electrolyte solution
  For the purpose of blood analyses and industrial tests, it is often necessary to measure the concentration of specific ions. At present, the relevant devices are large and cannot be produced at low...
• First results from the new double velocity-double energy spectrometer VERDI
  Today fission research focusses on obtaining precise information on the amount of isotopes produced in nuclear fission and the production methods involved. Those data were again of high priority i...
• A sub-surface copper layer boosts activity of platinum electrodes
  Water electrolysis has not yet established itself as a method for the production of hydrogen. Too much energy is lost in the process. With a trick researchers of the Technical University of Munich ...
• The impact of nuclear temperature on prompt fission gamma-ray emission
  JRC scientists, in collaboration with French, Swedish and Norwegian nuclear research institutions, performed a comparative measurement of prompt fission gamma-ray characteristics for fast-neutron-i...
• Novel concept for compact high-field high-repetition-rate accelerator-based Terahertz user facilities
  Scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) succeeded in constructing a prototype facility for research with high Terahertz (THz) fields. The performance of the TELBE facility was...
• Non-natural Biomedical Polymers Produced from Microorganisms
  KAIST researchers have developed metabolically engineered Escherichia coli strains to synthesize non-natural, biomedically important polymers including poly(lactate-co-glycolate) (PLGA), previously...
• New nanoparticle technology to decipher structure and function of membrane proteins
  Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a nanoparticle technology that can be used to stabilise membrane proteins so that their structure can be studied in a lipid environment. The meth...
• New state of matter: Quantum gas, liquid and crystal all-in-one
  The world of quantum mechanics happens only in small scales around a few nanometers. In this nanoworld, particles can behave like waves, and vice versa and have only some probability to be in a par...
• Clean energy could stress global water resources
  Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the energy sector could lead to greater pressure on water resources, increasing water use and thermal water pollution. Dedicated adaptation measures wi...
• Human blood-brain barrier-on-a-chip device offers new ways of studying in vitro
  The blood-brain barrier at the interface between the brain's blood vessels and nerve cells acts as a vital gatekeeper to the brain, allowing essential nutrients and fluids to pass into the central ...
• A perfect material for air filters
  A research team from the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences have synthesized the material that is perfect for protection of respiratory organs, ...
• Biofuels from algae: a budding technology yet to become viable
  Despite high expectations and extensive research and investment in the last decade, technological options are still in developing stages and key resources for algal growth are still too onerous for...
• "Water Battery": Charging H₂O by means of a water bridge
  Together with the Wetsus research centre in The Netherlands, researchers of TU Graz have managed to produce electrically charged water by means of a floating water bridge. Until its scientific r...
• The key to mass-producing nanomaterials
  Nanoparticles - tiny particles 100,000 times smaller than the width of a strand of hair - can be found in everything from drug delivery formulations to pollution controls on cars to HD TV sets. Wit...
• Optimizing biofuel production from algae using carbon dioxide emissions
  The combustion of fossil fuels drives the world's energy production, but it also emits carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. In recent years, researchers have worked to cultivate alternative, ...