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• NMR studying of biological molecules using hyperpolarized water
  "We are often charged with not being sensitive enough," says Prof. Lucio Frydman of the Weizmann Institute of Science's Chemical and Biological Physics Department. Frydman is not referring to emoti...
• Crude oil contains fullerenes
  Fullerenes are hollow closed molecules with high symmetry, consisting of carbon atoms. The best-known fullerene C₆₀ has a structure reminiscent of a football. The name Fullerene - or Buckyball - go...
• Evidence of more elementary particles in the nucleus of an atom
  In the nucleus of an atom there are protons and neutrons. These are made up of elementary particles, specifically three quarks in each one. You can read about this in current physics textbooks - bu...
• Growing polymers with different lengths
  ETH researchers have developed a new method for producing polymers with different lengths. This paves the way for new classes of polymer materials to be used in previously inconceivable application...
• Investigating the structure and mechanisms of coronavirus biomolecules
  Researchers at EMBL Grenoble are using structural biology methods to provide mechanistic insights into SARS-CoV-2 and test potential drug candidates. By studying the detailed molecular structure of...
• Why some crystals do not come together as predicted
  When we say that something is "crystal-clear," we mean that it couldn't possibly be clearer, but much about crystals themselves is not clear at all. Scientists are for the most part still unable to...
• Molecular spectroscopy in the data age
  For the longest time, data about molecules was hidden in analogue media and therefore widely inaccessible for researchers. Now, molecular physicists at the Fritz Haber Institute have created a data...
• Open Science COVID19 analysis platform online
  As part of the EU funded project PaNOSC, an international network of data scientists have developed the Open Science COVID Analysis (OSCOVIDA) platform to analyse the spread and development of COVI...
• A neat way to turn waste carbon dioxide into useful material
  Chemical engineers from UNSW Sydney have developed new technology that helps convert harmful carbon dioxide emissions into chemical building blocks to make useful industrial products like fuel and ...
• Ancient enzymes can contribute to greener chemistry
  A research team at Uppsala University has resurrected several billion-year-old enzymes and reprogrammed them to catalyse completely different chemical reactions than their modern versions can manag...
• Potential Beginning of Life Simulated in Lab
  Did life originate not on the ground but underground? Scientists at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) have substantiated their theory that first life could have begun deep in the earth's crust...
• Metallic ammonia? - Experiment shows for the first time how electrolytes become metallic
  An international team for the first time observed the formation of a metallic conduction band in electrolytes using photoelectron spectroscopy. This allowed a deeper insight into the behaviour of e...
• Snapshots of exploding oxygen
  In a paper published in the journal Physical Review X, an international collaboration of scientists led by Till Jahnke from Goethe University Frankfurt succeeded in observing the ultrafast breakup ...
• Genetic cut and paste at atomic resolution
  When the Human Genome Project was completed, many scientists were surprised to discover how few genes we have. Humans have about as many genes for making proteins as mice or roundworms - around 20 ...
• Terahertz radiation can disrupt proteins in living cells
  Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics and collaborators have discovered that terahertz radiation, contradicting conventional belief, can disrupt proteins in living cells without ...
• Sustainable method for extracting vanillin from wood processing waste
  Electrolytic depolymerization of lignin in caustic soda could replace the existing environmentally harmful process for producing the most widely used flavoring and aroma agent in the world. Scie...
• "Black nitrogen": a puzzle of the periodic table has been solved
  In the periodic table of elements there is one golden rule for carbon, oxygen, and other light elements. Under high pressures they have similar structures to heavier elements in the same group of e...
• Catalysts: Efficient hydrogen production via structure
  Regeneratively produced hydrogen is considered the ecological raw material of the future. In order to produce it efficiently by electrolysis of water, researchers today also investigate perovskite ...
• 4-billion-year-old nitrogen-containing organic molecules discovered in Martian Meteorites
  Using advanced techniques, scientists have detected organic compounds containing nitrogen in Martian meteorites which were ejected from Mars' surface ~ 15 million years ago, proving that evidence f...
• Watching single protons moving at water-solid interfaces
  H⁺ - a single ion of hydrogen, the smallest and lightest of all the chemical elements - consists of a proton. These protons occur naturally in water where a tiny proportion of H₂O molecules separat...
• Tyre particles contaminate rivers and oceans
  A major government funded study suggests particles released from vehicle tyres could be a significant and previously largely unrecorded source of microplastics in the marine environment. Dr Geof...
• First case of hexagonal NaCl
  Skoltech and MIPT scientists have predicted and then experimentally confirmed the existence of exotic hexagonal thin films of NaCl on a diamond surface. These films may be useful as gate dielectric...