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• Light from the particle accelerator helps to understand ozone decomposition
  A new experimental chamber coupled to the Swiss Light Source (SLS), a large-scale research facility of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, allows researchers to recreate atmospheric processes in the l...
• First large scale study of cocaine users leads to breakthrough in drug testing
  Scientists from the University of Surrey have developed a rapid and highly sensitive fingerprint test that can take just seconds to confirm whether someone has used cocaine. This new breakthrough, ...
• New analysis explains role of defects in metal oxides
  Sometimes things that are technically defects, such as imperfections in a material's crystal lattice, can actually produce changes in properties that open up new kinds of useful applications. New r...
• User operation starts at the world's biggest X-ray laser
  The first users have now started experiments at the new international research facility in Schenefeld. "This is a very important event, and we are very happy that the first users have now arrived a...
• Rapid imaging of granular matter
  Granular systems such as gravel or powders can be found everywhere, but studying them is not easy. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now developed a method by which pictures of the inside of granular ...
• Production of drop-in fuel by combined microbial and electrochemical conversion
  Researchers at Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ), the University of Tübingen, Cornell University, and Deutsche Biomasseforschungszentrum (DBFZ) have shown that the combination of mi...
• Progress on the way to smart nanomachines
  LMU chemists led by Dr. Henry Dube have developed a new method to synthesize a next generation of molecular motors. Using this method "we were able to reduce the speed of our molecular motor suffic...
• Mixing Artificial Sweeteners Inhibits Bitter Taste Receptors
  Blends of artificial sweeteners such as saccharin and cyclamate produce less of a bitter off-taste than each of the individual components, but the explanation for this puzzling phenomenon has been ...
• Multifunctional nano-sized drug carriers developed
  Nano-sized carrier systems find medical application to improve pharmacologic properties of bioactive agents. For many therapeutic approaches, it is important that the carrier system can stably inco...
• Self-healing Gold Particles
  Self-healing materials are able to repair autonomously defects, such as scratches, cracks or dents, and resume their original shape. For this purpose, they must be composed of several components wh...
• Radioactive Metal Complexes for Tumour Diagnosis and Therapy
  A team under the direction of chemist Prof. Dr Peter Comba is investigating radioactive metal complexes for use in the diagnosis and treatment of tumours. In their recent studies at Heidelberg Univ...
• Novel contrast medium promises deep insights into cell processes
  Imagine tracing the fate of specific cells in deep layers of tissue using minute amounts of an externally triggered contrast medium. The almost unimaginable is within reach today! A new contrast me...
• First imaging of free nanoparticles in lab experiment
  In a joint research project, scientists from the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI), the Technische Universität Berlin and the University of Rostock have man...
• Identifying active sites on catalysts
  Chemistry live: Using a scanning tunneling microscope, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) were able for the very first time to witness in detail the activity of catalysts durin...
• SO/IEC 17025 moves to final stage of revision
  Calibration as well as testing and analysing a sample is the daily practice of more than 60 000 laboratories worldwide, but how can they reassure customers about the reliability of their results? ...
• Identification of a key molecule for the neurotransmitter release in synapses
  The contact areas between nerve cells are called synapses. What happens there lies at the heart of communication between nerve cells. Communication starts with the release of chemical messengers kn...
• Organic photodiodes as more economical NIR detectors
  The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP, a leading provider of R&D for applications in the area of OLED-on-silicon, will be introducing a new gener...
• Holy water: not as clean as hoped
  Is holy water more dangerous than useful? What is the result when large numbers of people dip their fingers in the font? These questions were behind a recent scientific experiment. Although holy wa...
• Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award 2017 for the development of DNA-based nanodevices
  Professor Francesco Ricci from the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy, will receive the 2017 Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award for Analytical Science. The Italian chemist will receive the recognitio...
• Why some Listeria strains survive good food hygiene standards
  Despite high standards of cleanliness and hygiene in food industry, bacteria such as Listeria monocytogenes can still be found in the food processing environment. In a study published in Applied an...
• Smart tomographic sensors control industrial processes of tomorrow
  Modern parallel computer architectures are capable of processing huge amounts of data at high speed. This allows for the increasing use of imaging techniques as sensors to control machines and proc...