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• Quick and easy: new ELISA for plant virus detection
  Scientists at the Leibniz Institute DSMZ have developed an extremely timesaving immunoassay variant. Using the classic ELISA, results are obtained only after up to two days. However, the new 'B-Fas...
• 3-D printed polymer turns methane to methanol
  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have combined biology and 3-D printing to create the first reactor that can continuously produce methanol from methane at room temperature and pres...
• Tiny mirror improves microscope resolution for studying cells
  By growing cells on the mirrors and imaging them using super-resolution microscopy, a group of scientists from universities in the United States, China and Australia have addressed a problem that h...
• New light on how nuclear fission fragments cool down
  In close collaboration with the Swedish University of Chalmers, JRC scientists investigated prompt fission gamma-ray spectra from plutonium isotopes to reduce statistical uncertainties on the model...
• First detection of a chiral molecule in interstellar space
  Chiral molecules have two forms that are identical in structure, but are mirror images of one another. They are important on Earth because most biomolecules found in living organisms are chiral. No...
• A light microscope made only with consumer electronic products
  Holographic, phase contrast or differential interference contrast (DIC) microscopes have been implemented especially for making "visible", otherwise "invisible", transparent objects, opening a new ...
• Chemical structure paves the way for new broad spectrum antifungals
  Fungal infections can be devastating to human health, killing approximately 150 people every hour, resulting in over a million deaths every year, more than malaria and tuberculosis combined. Unfort...
• Physicists measured something new in the radioactive decay of neutrons
  A physics experiment performed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has enhanced scientists' understanding of how free neutrons decay into other particles. The work provides...
• T2R2 Open-Access Full-Text Files Surpass 5,000 Mark!
  The Tokyo Tech Research Repository, or T2R2, is a unified system for the registration, storage, management, and dissemination of papers, articles, books, and other academic work published by resear...
• Preferred names of constitutional units for use in structure-based names of polymers
  Provisional Recommendations are drafts of IUPAC recommendations on terminology, nomenclature, and symbols, made widely available to allow interested parties to comment before the recommendations ar...
• Using terahertz laser, scientists change the macromolecular conformation of a polymer
  Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics (RAP) have, for the first time, successfully used a terahertz laser to induce permanent changes in the conformation of a polymer, giving it a...
• Measurement of the dynamic mechanical properties of viscous materials
  In microsystems metallic components are increasingly being replaced by those from low-cost polymers. For the thickness measurement of polymers, there is now the DIN standard 32567 available, which ...
• Glutathione as a protective shield against Uranium
  Microorganisms can better withstand the heavy metal uranium when glutathione is present, a molecule composed of three amino acids. Scientists from the German based Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossend...
• Fukushima radioactivity diluted in the Pacific makes tracing ocean currents possible
  Very little is known about ocean currents and generally about dynamics in the oceans. But radioactivity released into the Pacific by the Fukushima nuclear accident, which was quickly diluted to har...
• New process for eco-friendly phosphorus recovery
  Demand in agriculture for phosphate-based fertilizers is growing steadily. At the same time, the purity of reservoirs is declining, which means extracting and preparing phosphorus is getting more d...
• Better method of crystal production developed
  Be it in phyics, metallurgy, gemology or engineering, the applications of crystals are very broad. A research team including Christos Likos and Lorenzo Rovigatti from the Faculty of Physics of the ...
• New approach for a Hydrogen production process suited for industrial applications
  Hydrogen is considered as a potential energy carrier of the future. However, its mass production remains problematic. Bochum-based researchers have found a new approach for a process suited for ind...
• The useful biological role of acrolein
  Scientists from RIKEN in Japan have discovered that acrolein-a toxic substance produced in cells during times of oxidative stress-in fact may play a role in preventing the process of fibrillation, ...
• Sensor fusion for a more successful CFRP testing
  The established methods for non-destructive testing of carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP) separately provide only limited information about the material. Whether macroscopic properties, textur...
• Update on non-monotonic dose response
  A new EFSA external scientific report is "a useful contribution to the scientific debate" on non-monotonic dose response (NMDR) results from toxicity studies, according to Prof Anthony Hardy, Chair...
• Strength and ductility for alloys
  For the steel industry, there may be a way out of the dilemma that has existed since people began processing metal. Scientists from the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Düsseldorf (Germany...
• 2016 Millennium Technology award for new process of protein modification
  Biochemical engineer Frances Arnold receives the 2016 Millennium Technology Prize in recognition of her discoveries that launched the field of 'directed evolution', which mimics natural evolution t...