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• The origin of water's unusual properties found
  Using x-ray lasers, researchers at Stockholm University have been able to map out how water fluctuates between two different states when it is cooled. At -44°C these fluctuations reach a maximum po...
• Silver recovery from laundry washwater
  Silver nanoparticles are being used in clothing for their anti-odor abilities but some of this silver comes off when the clothes are laundered. The wastewater from this process could end up in the ...
• Are Phages Our Best Bet Against Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria?
  Bacteriophages, or simply phages, are viruses that infect and replicate within bacteria, and they hold considerable potential for combatting antibiotic-resistance and other threats to human health....
• What makes a food ingredient "natural"?
  When is a food ingredient considered as "natural"? Until now, there was no internationally agreed definition of a "natural" food ingredient, but a new ISO technical specification will help the food...
• Hydrogen Production - New results in catalysis research
  The interaction of protein shell and active centre in hydrogen-producing enzymes is crucial for the efficiency of biocatalysts. A team from Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the Max Planck Institute for ...
• Creating plants that glow
  Imagine that instead of switching on a lamp when it gets dark, you could read by the light of a glowing plant on your desk. MIT engineers have taken a critical first step toward making that visi...
• Coffee physics
  For anyone who has marveled at the richly colored layers in a cafe latte, you're not alone. Princeton researchers, likewise intrigued, have now revealed how this tiered structure develops when espr...
• Origami nanostructures to track individual molecules
  One of chemistry's greatest challenges is investigating reaction mechanisms at the level of single molecules. This can be performed using Raman spectroscopy - provided that molecules and metallic n...
• Gips-Schüle Research Award for Ultracompact Photodetector
  Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) demonstrated a novel plasmonic photodetector that is a hundred times smaller and much quicker than conventional detectors. For this, scientist...
• Plasmonic biosensors enable development of new easy-to-use health tests
  The plasmonic biosensor can detect diseased exosomes even by the naked eye. Exosomes, important indicators of health conditions, are cell-derived vesicles that are present in blood and urine. A ...
• Are molecules right-handed or left-handed?
  The starting signal is given and two electrons speed off in opposite directions. The one that wins the race is barely seven attoseconds ahead. The difference is so small that up till now it has bee...
• New method for monitoring nuclear waste
  New scientific findings suggest neutrino detectors may play an important role in ensuring better monitoring and safer storage of radioactive material in nuclear waste repository sites. Researchers ...
• Neutron spectroscopy: new detector module increases count rate tenfold
  The triple axis spectrometer FLEXX at BER II provides a new detector module for user service. It measures many angles and multiple energy transfers simultaneously and thus increases the amount of d...
• Biocompatible ink for 3D printing using living bacteria
  There will soon be nothing that cannot be produced with 3D printing. However, the materials used for this process are still "dead matter" such as plastics or metals. A group of ETH researchers l...
• Diverse microbial life on a sand grain
  Just imagine, you are sitting on a sunny beach, contentedly letting the warm sand trickle through your fingers. Millions of sand grains. What you probably can't imagine: at the same time, billions ...
• A space-time sensor for light-matter interactions
  LMU-Physicists have developed an attosecond electron microscope that allows them to visualize the dispersion of light in time and space, and observe the motions of electrons in atoms. The most b...
• A hybrid renewable energy solution
  Grid operators need to do more than simply distribute the electricity generated by wind farms and photovoltaic plants. They also have to ensure a consistent quality of supply. Achieving this with t...
• New forensic technology will make it "impossible" for criminals to destroy fingerprint evidence
  The advanced detection technique, which allows investigators to take prints from problematic exhibits, such as spent ammunition casings, was carried out in partnership with the Defence Science and ...
• New approach to determining the structure of molecules in biological cells
  This is about nothing less than the complex mechanisms of life: In their project entitled "Spectroscopy in cells" - or SPICE for short - the physical chemist Professor Malte Drescher and his workin...