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• Nocturnal Detergents with Side Effects
  Nitrate radicals in the air clean the atmosphere at night. Jülich atmospheric researchers together with colleagues from twenty international research institutions have now found out that this proba...
• Ionic liquids simplify laser experiments on liquid samples
  A HZB team has developed a new approach to conduct photoemission spectroscopy of molecules in solution. This has been difficult up to now because the sample needed to be situated in vacuum - but li...
• Comparability of particle size measurement in different laboratories
  An interlaboratory comparison study coordinated by the JRC confirms that the term 'particle size' is not sufficient to specify the exact quantity measured by different particle size analysis method...
• Electrically accessing complex magnetism in rare earth atoms
  A new way to electrically access the magnetic properties of rare earth atoms, which are of crucial importance in many modern technologies, has been revealed by a team of researchers from the London...
• Can novel digital PCR methods improve tuberculosis patient care?
  Collaborating within the European Infect-Met consortium, the JRC has validated novel digital PCR detection methods for the bacterium causing Tuberculosis. These methods allow for the evaluation of ...
• Nanostructures against antibiotic resistance
  Several peptides have an antibacterial effect - but they are broken down in the human body too quickly to exert this effect. Empa researchers have now succeeded in encasing peptides in a protective...
• Physicists observe diffusion of individual atoms in light baths
  A combination of experiments and theory has enabled physicists to understand the diffusion of individual atoms in periodic systems for the first time. The interactions of individual atoms with ligh...
• Observe the activation of large neural circuits in real time
  Nowadays it is well recognized that most brain functions may not be comprehended through inspection of single neurons. To advance meaningfully, neuroscientists need the ability to monitor the activ...
• Kinetic analysis questions chemistry proposed for the origin of life
  Kinetic and thermodynamic considerations reported by researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology suggest that thioesters at the heart of many theories on the origin of life are unlikely primor...
• Optimised strategies for the identification of skin sensitising chemicals
  JRC scientists have been developing and optimising animal-free testing strategies for the identification of chemicals with the potential to cause skin allergy, as a contribution towards internation...
• Understanding phase transition from metal to isolator with spectroscopic analysis methods
  Some materials hold surprising - and possibly useful - properties: neodymium nickel oxide is either a metal or an insulator, depending on its temperature. This characteristic makes the material a p...
• Phenomenex to be acquired by Danaher Corporation
  Phenomenex Inc., a privately held manufacturer and distributor of high-value consumables for the separation sciences, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Danaher Corpor...
• Solvent-free processing and re-processing plastics with light
  Azobenzene polymers, currently used in research as potential, future coating and ink material, can be transitioned from solids into liquids by means of light enabling an environmentally friendly pr...
• New bioinformatics tool for searching sequencing data
  Sequencing data from biological samples such as the skin, intestinal tissues, or soil and water are usually archived in public databases. This allows researchers from all over the globe to access t...
• Manufacturing of high-quality plastics from terpenes
  Even if fossil resources got much cheaper in the last years there are big efforts to replace standard plastics by substances made from renewable resources. A reduced consump tion of fossil resource...
• Launch of Endocrine Active Substances Information System (EASIS)
  On 30 September 2016, the Commission launched the Endocrine Active Substances Information System (EASIS). This web-based application, developed by the JRC, allows searching and collecting results f...
• 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded for "the design and synthesis of molecular machines"
  A tiny lift, artificial muscles and miniscule motors. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 is awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa for their design and product...
• First spectroscopic investigation of element nobelium
  The analysis of atomic spectra is of fundamental importance for our understanding of atomic structures. Until now, researchers were unable to examine heavy elements with optical spectroscopy becaus...
• New microscopy technique to measure the forces exerted by biological cells when they grow
  An interdisciplinary team of scientists from ETH Zurich has developed a new microscopy technique that allows researchers to measure in great detail the forces exerted by biological cells when they ...
• Harnessing the possibilities of the nanoworld
  The laws of thermodynamics govern the behaviour of large, bulk materials in the macro world, while quantum mechanics describes behaviour of particles at the other extreme, in the world of single at...
• Controllable light-emitting materials to advance light sensing and nano-medicine
  Scientists at Tokyo Tech have developed an approach to control the photoluminescence and solid-state emission of bismuth complexes by complexation with phenylazomethine dendrimers. This research no...