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• Short film of a magnetic nano-vortex
  For the first time, researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have recorded a "3D film" of magnetic processes on the nanometer scale. This reveals a variety of dynamics inside the material, in...
• Analytics-based water solutions that aid in smart asset management
  Digital transformation solutions supporting the holistic transformation of utilities into a smart infrastructure find high uptake, finds Frost & Sullivan. Water and wastewater utilities are acti...
• How cells disentangle clumped proteins
  A Dutch-German team including researchers from Heidelberg University explored and describe a molecular machine which pulls on exposed loops of the protein chains and extracts them from the protein ...
• Wellcome Trust Pledge to combat public health crisis
  John Wiley& Sons Inc. joins the Wellcome Trust and other organizations in making research freely available during public health crises, such as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. "We a...
• New catalyst recycles greenhouse gases into fuel and hydrogen gas
  Scientists have taken a major step toward a circular carbon economy by developing a long-lasting, economical catalyst that recycles greenhouse gases into ingredients that can be used in fuel, hydro...
• Electricity 'out of thin air'
  Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a device that uses a natural protein to create electricity from moisture in the air, a new technology they say could have signif...
• A fast light detector made of two-dimensional materials
  Two research groups at ETH Zurich have joined forces to develop a novel light detector. It consists of two-dimensional layers of different materials that are coupled to a silicon optical waveguide....
• Electroactive substances for organic redox-flow batteries
  Renewable energy sources like solar cells (photovoltaics) and wind turbines require large-scale energy storage systems to balance out fluctuations in energy generation. Redox-flow batteries (RFBs) ...
• In the right place at the right time - activation chain of protein degradation deciphered
  Proteins are molecular work horses in the cell that perform specific tasks, but it is essential that the timing of protein activities is exquisitely controlled. When proteins have fulfilled their t...
• Nanoparticles can change cells
  Nanoparticles easily enter into cells. New insights about how they are distributed and what they do there are shown for the first time by high-resolution 3D microscopy images from BESSY II. For exa...
• Experimental fingerprint detection using Mass-Spectroscopy
  An experimental fingerprint detection approach can identify traces of cocaine on human skin, even after someone has washed their hands - and the test is also smart enough to tell whether an individ...
• Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology 2020 call for entries
  Eppendorf and the journal Science are now accepting applications for the 2020 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology. This annual international research prize of US$25,000 is awarded to young s...
• Mapping the microscopic behaviour of conjugated polymers
  Conjugated polymers have attracted broad academic and industrial interest over recent years for their potential use in a range of applications. Made up of a complex configuration of carbon and hydr...
• Single atom as measuring probe uses quantum information for the first time
  Sensors collect certain parameters such as temperature and air pressure in their proximity. Physicists from Kaiserslautern and a colleague from Hanover have succeeded for the first time in using a ...
• How quickly are electrons transferred?
  A team of researchers at FAU has developed a method which can be used to reliably measure the speed of electron transfer between two materials. This could lead to the development of innovative elec...
• Avoiding bubble trouble in gas evolving electrodes
  Bubbles are known to influence energy and mass transfer in gas evolving electrodes. Many electrochemical reactions produce gas that can lead to bubbles forming at the reaction site. Those bubbles c...
• Closely spaced hydrogen atoms could facilitate superconductivity in ambient conditions
  An international team of researchers has discovered the hydrogen atoms in a metal hydride material are much more tightly spaced than had been predicted for decades - a feature that could possibly f...
• New membranes for cellular recycling
  There is a constant spring-cleaning in our cells: The cell's own recycling system, so-called autophagy, fills garbage bags with cellular waste, transports them to the recycling yard and makes the d...
• Palladium-based intermetallic electride improves the efficiency of carbon-carbon cross-coupling reactions
  Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have developed an electride material composed of yttrium and palladium (Y₃Pd₂) as a catalyst for Suzuki cross-coupling reactions. These rea...
• Waves of ice inside a droplet
  A droplet falling on a surface that is considerably supercooled, will freeze in a way that wasn't ever observed before. Instead of the well-known growth of crystals, a colder surface results in mov...