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- Insights into the formation of chalk in algae by electron microscopy
Calcareous algae save important environmental information within their solid cover. An international team of scientists, including GFZ scientists, now gained new insights into the chalk formation o... - First X-ray laser simulation suite explores single-particle imaging
Imagine taking an atomic-resolution X-ray picture of any individual biomolecule, without growing crystals, which can be extremely time-consuming or, in some cases, even impossible. Called single-pa... - Optogenetics reveals new insights into circuits of the brain
Scientists have largely been in the dark with regard to how individual circuits operate in the highly branched networks of the brain. Mapping these networks is a complicated process, requiring prec... - European scientists join forces in fighting ciguatoxin food poisoning
A cooperation project on ciguatoxin food poisoning involving 13 organisations from six Member States and EFSA is taking shape. Representatives of Spain and EFSA signed a Framework Partnership Agree... - How to define read-across and 42 other terms in nanomaterials safety?
Nanoform, Read-across, Weight of Evidence...what do they mean in the nanomaterials safety context? How many definitions of those terms are available? Consistent use of terminology is important i... - Researchers analyse chemical composition of dust from beyond the solar system
A Heidelberg-designed dust detector on the Cassini space probe - known as the cosmic dust analyser (CDA) - has identified several extremely rare and minuscule particles of interstellar dust from ou... - Spectroscopic imaging scanning tunnelling microscopy used to determine the g-factor
Topological insulators are materials that have an electronically insulating interior and an electronically conductive exterior. Much effort has gone into finding and researching the properties of t... - Long half-lives relevant to nuclear waste disposal
JRC scientists standardised the activity concentration of three fission products (129up>I, 151sup>Sm, and 166mHo) potentially present in nuclear waste. This work will result in new and eventually more acc... - High pressure reduces adsorption capacity of metal-organic frameworks
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can store gases such as methane in their surface interstices, or pores. Now teams from the Technische Universität Dresden and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) have pre... - Growing skin in the lab
Using reprogrammed iPS cells, scientists from the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) in Japan have, along with collaborators from Tokyo University of Science and other Japanese institutio... - BÜCHI Acquires Flash Chromatography and ELSD Product Lines from Grace
BÜCHI Labortechnik AG (BUCHI), a leading global provider of laboratory technology solutions for R&D, quality control, and production equipment, today announced it has acquired from W. R. Grace & Co... - Observation of magnetic fragmentation in spin ice
Spin ice is an unusual magnetic material in which the combination of strong local Ising anisotropy and ferromagnetic interactions imposes a local constraint to the magnetic moments, the "ice-rule".... - New method to fabricate programmable colloidal molecules
Scientists at ETH Zurich and IBM Research Zurich have developed a new technique that enables for the first time the manufacture of complexly structured tiny objects joining together microspheres. T... - Direct proof of stable ultra-long 1D carbon chains as a route to carbyne
Elemental carbon appears in many different forms, including diamond and graphite. Their unique structural, electrical and optical properties have a broad range of potential applications in composit... - Proficiency in monitoring radioactivity in air
JRC scientists organised an inter-laboratory comparison study to assess the measurement performance of EU monitoring laboratories. For this purpose, air filters were spiked with 137Cs. The results ... - Terahertz technology reaches industrial maturity
Terahertz is a new technology in which nondestructive testing of components and surfaces is possible. Until now, these devices and, in particular, the sensor heads have been expensive and unwieldy.... - New microscope designed to reveal the function of individual genes in the brain
Changes in gene activity are fundamental to many neuropsychiatric disorders. However, the nature of the genes affected, the time and place in which these changes occur, or the impact of these chang... - How to make metal alloys that stand up to hydrogen
High-tech metal alloys are widely used in important materials such as the cladding that protects the fuel inside a nuclear reactor. But even the best alloys degrade over time, victims of a reactor'... - Computer Simulation Discloses New Effect of Cavitation
Researchers have discovered a so far unknown formation mechanism of cavitation bubbles by means of a model calculation. In the Science Advances journal, they describe how oil-repellent and oil-attr... - Next-generation Holographic Microscope for 3D Live Cell Imaging
Professor YongKeun Park of the Physics Department at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and his research team have developed a powerful method for 3D imaging of live cel... - Sustainable Processing of Rare Earths
Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology (HIF) are developing a new strategy for processing the Vietnamese "Nam Xe" rare earth ore deposits in an environmentally frie...