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• Novel tools for biomedical applications: Bacterial magnetic nanoparticles
  Magnetic nanoparticles biosynthesized by bacteria might soon play an important role in biomedicine and biotechnology. Researchers of the University of Bayreuth have now developed and optimised a pr...
• New crystalline ice form: Scientists elucidate crystal structure for exotic ice XIX
  Ice is a very versatile material. In snowflakes or ice cubes, the oxygen atoms are arranged hexagonally. This ice form is called ice one (ice I). "Strictly speaking, however, these are not actua...
• Cyanobacteria can help astronauts survive self-sufficiently on Mars
  Leading space agencies aspire astronaut missions to Mars in the future. These are designed for a long-term stay, which poses new challenges for science: In addition to a habitat, for example, the f...
• Alchemy for aromatics - new solutions for fluorine chemistry
  Two new catalysts for aromatics refinement using fluorine compounds and a new fluorine building block are among the results achieved at the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis in Rostock (LIKAT) in the...
• New microscopy analysis allows discovery of central adhesion complex
  Cells of organisms are organized in subcellular compartments that consist of many individual molecules. How these single proteins are organized on the molecular level remains unclear, because suita...
• Flowers of St. John's Wort serve as catalyst in photochemical reactions
  An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the School of Science at TU Dresden has for the first time used dried flowers of St. John's Wort (genus Hypericum) as an active catalyst in various phot...
• Producing more sustainable hydrogen with composite polymer dots
  Hydrogen for energy use can be extracted in an environmentally friendly way from water and sunlight, using photocatalytic composite polymer nanoparticles developed by researchers at Uppsala Univers...
• Understanding catalytic couplings: not all synergies are simple
  Negishi cross-coupling reactions have been widely used to form C-C bonds since the 1970s and are often perceived as the result of two metals (i.e zinc and palladium/nickel) working in synergy. But ...
• More research into the effects of microplastics on health
  In January 2021, the knowledge agenda Microplastics and Health was presented to the State Secretary for Infrastructure and Water Management, Stientje van Veldhoven. This knowledge agenda describes ...
• Bioplastics in the sustainability dilemma
  Scientists at the University of Bonn investigated the factors affecting the global land use impacts and CO₂ emissions of plant-based plastics. They found out that the sustainability of plant-based ...
• Reveal the inner structure of Single-chain nanoparticles for the first time
  Single-chain nanoparticles (SCNPs) are an attractive material for chemical and biomedical applications. They are created from just a single chain of molecules that folds into a particle whose circu...
• New rapid test to detect coronavirus antibodies
  An international research team involving the universities of Paraná (Brazil) and Tübingen (Germany) has developed a rapid test that can reliably identify Covid-19 antibodies in the blood within min...
• A new tool in the search for axions
  Researchers from the international BASE collaboration at CERN, Switzerland, which is led by the RIKEN Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, have discovered a new avenue to search for axions-a hypothet...
• Standard water treatment technique removes and inactivates an enveloped virus
  Enveloped viruses have been detected in raw sewage and sludge, but scientists still don't fully understand the fate and infectivity of these viruses during water purification at treatment plants. N...
• Powerful X-rays watch solid state batteries charging and discharging
  Using high-speed X-ray tomography, researchers captured images of solid-state batteries in operation and gained new insights that may improve their efficiency. Despite worldwide use of lithium batt...
• Bacteria join forces against a common enemy
  Two bacterial species cooperate chemically with each other to fight off amoebae that generally consume them. A team of researchers from Jena has now discovered this on coorperation-based defense me...
• Smartphone-Based COVID-19 Test
  Researchers at the University of Arizona are developing a COVID-19 testing method that uses a smartphone microscope to analyze saliva samples and deliver results in about 10 minutes. The UArizon...
• Synthesizing valuable chemicals from contaminated soil
  Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and ETH Zurich have developed a process to produce commodity chemicals in a much less hazardous way than was previously possible. Such commod...
• Producing dichloro and dibromo compounds in a safer and more environmentally friendly manner
  Researchers at ETH Zurich and the University of Mainz developed a new method to replace molecular chlorine and bromine in chemical synthesis with less toxic molecules. The technology helps to make ...
• Size of helium nucleus measured more precisely than ever before
  In experiments at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, an international research collaboration has measured the radius of the atomic nucleus of helium five times more precisely than ever before. With t...