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• New cell scale with high resolution
  From earthworms and sunflowers to human beings, we are all made up of cells, so it's no surprise that researchers are hard at work investigating these building blocks of life. They have already dis...
• Neutrons observe vitamin B6-dependent enzyme activity
  Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have performed neutron structural analysis of a vitamin B6-dependent protein, potentially opening avenues for new antibiotics ...
• New approach to imaging single biological particles
  As part of an international collaboration, scientists at European XFEL have developed and tested a novel approach for processing data from single biological particles such as proteins and viruses. ...
• Global CO₂ emissions stalled for the third year in a row
  The annual assessment of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by the JRC and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) confirms that CO₂ emissions have stalled for the third year in a ...
• Beer can lift your spirits
  Visitors to the Oktoberfest have always known it and now it has been scientifically proven - beer can lift your spirits. Scientists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) examin...
• The importance of asymmetry in bacteria
  The Newcastle University team reveal how the removal of certain lipids from the outer membrane may provide a vulnerability for gram-negative bacteria. They propose that this system could be exploit...
• Heavy elements in neutron star mergers detected
  Central predictions by GSI scientists on the formation of heavy elements such as gold and platinum in the universe have now been observed astrophysically. For the first time gravitational waves of ...
• Microbes leave 'fingerprints' on Martian rocks
  Scientists around Tetyana Milojevic from the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Vienna are in search of unique biosignatures, which are left on synthetic extraterrestrial minerals by microbi...
• Large river systems are the main culprits for plastic pollution in the oceans
  Every year, millions of tonnes of plastic debris ends up in the sea - a global environmental problem with unforeseeable ecological consequences. The path taken by plastic to reach the sea must be e...
• Capturing Methane for use as fuel or a chemical feedstock.
  Many oil wells burn off methane - the largest component of natural gas - in a process called flaring, which currently wastes 150 billion cubic meters of the gas each year and generates a staggering...
• Hokusai's blue, cellulose nanofibers join forces to clean up disaster areas
  By combining the same Prussian blue pigment used in the works of popular Edo-period artist Hokusai and cellulose nanofiber, a raw material of paper, a University of Tokyo research team succeeded in...
• Low-cost battery from waste graphite
  Lithium ion batteries are flammable and the price of the raw material is rising. Are there alternatives? Yes: Empa and ETH Zürich researchers have discovered promising approaches as to how we might...
• The "atomic second" turns 50
  The "atomic second" was the beginning of a revolutionary era: it was born as early as 1955, when the first cesium atomic clock was put into operation. In the fall of 1967, it was included in the In...
• Nanoparticles that stick wounds together
  In spite of medical advances, wound-related complications arising after operations can still be life-threatening. In order to avoid these complications in the future, a new nanoparticle-based tissu...
• Test reveals antibiotic-resistant bacteria in a half hour
  The discovery of antibiotics in the early part of the 20th century changed modern medicine. Simple infections that previously killed people became easy to treat. Antibiotics' ability to stave off i...
• Nanomaterial can extract hydrogen fuel from seawater
  It's possible to produce hydrogen to power fuel cells by extracting the gas from seawater, but the electricity required to do it makes the process costly. UCF researcher Yang Yang has come up with ...
• Medical-grade bio-glue inspired by slugs sticks to biological surfaces without toxicity
  Anyone who has ever tried to put on a Band-Aid® when their skin is damp knows that it can be frustrating. Wet skin isn't the only challenge for medical adhesives - the human body is full of blood, ...
• Biosensor for heavy metals
  A team of Empa scientists has developed a biosensor which allows them to detect elevated concentrations of copper in a simple, quick and economic way. Copper, like other heavy metals is problematic...
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution
  PWe may soon have detailed images of life's complex machineries in atomic resolution. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 is awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for the d...
• 10-second HIV test linked to mobile phones
  The University of Surrey, working with colleagues at University College London, the Africa Health research Institute (South Africa), OJ-Bio (Newcastle), QV (holdings (Netherlands) and the Japan Rad...
• Neural networks carry out chemical simulations in record time
  Researchers at the Universities of Vienna and Göttingen have succeeded in developing a method for predicting molecular infrared spectra based on artificial intelligence. These chemical "fingerprint...
• Filtering molecules from the water or air with nanomembranes
  Free-standing carbon membranes that are a millionth of a millimetre thin: these are a special research field of Professor Dr. Armin Gölzhäuser from Bielefeld University and his research group. The...