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• Light-driven bacterial factories to produce hydrogen
  Decarbonizing the economy and achieving the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energies is one of the most urgent global challenges of the 21st century. Hydrogen can play a key role in this ...
• Protein fingerprinting in minutes using mass-spectrometry
  Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Francis Crick Institute have developed a mass spectrometry-based technique capable of measuring samples containing thousands of proteins within just a few minutes...
• Electronic nose sniffs out free radicals
  An international project involving researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) is receiving 3.2 million euros from the European research and innovation program "Horizon 2020" to deve...
• Big breakthrough for 'massless' energy storage
  Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology have produced a structural battery that performs ten times better than all previous versions. It contains carbon fibre that serves simultaneously ...
• Surface analysis at the highest level
  Only a few atomic layers determine whether a surface is water-repellent, printable, paintable, adhesive or antibacterial. The surface of many products is therefore specifically modified. Thanks to ...
• Determining the structure of a molecule with laser-induced electron diffraction
  In a study recently published in Nature Communication, ICFO (Barcelona, Spain) researchers around Jens Biegert, in collaboration with researchers from Kansas State University, Max-Planck-Institut f...
• New microscopy method resolves fluorescent molecules with resolution at the nanometer scale
  Scientists working with Stefan Hell at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen and the Heidelberg-based MPI for Medical Research have developed another light microscop...
• Breaking bonds in molecular nitrogen with calcium
  Chemists all over the world are constantly searching for simple ways to make elemental nitrogen or N₂ in the air available for chemical reactions. This is no easy task, as nitrogen is a particularl...
• Spontaneous superconducting currents in Sr₂RuO₄
  Superconductivity is a complete loss of electrical resistance. Superconductors are not merely very good metals: it is a fundamentally different electronic state. In normal metals, electrons move in...
• Innovative biotechnological process extracts gallium from industrial wastewater
  Gallium is a rare metal, but it is widely used in the high-tech industry. This extreme contrast makes recycling indispensable. However, current recycling processes are costly and chemically pollute...
• Predicting the Performance of Catalysts
  Green electricity should be available as soon as possible, at best from all power outlets: electrochemical processes are the basis for a sustainable energy, but they need new, high-performance cata...
• New AI tool can revolutionise microscopy
  An AI tool developed at the University of Gothenburg offers new opportunities for analysing images taken with microscopes. A study shows that the tool, which has already received international reco...
• New, active viruses found at depths of over 400 meters
  Researchers who investigated water-filled cracks in the bedrock at a depth of 448 meters outside Oskarshamn in Sweden have found completely new viruses and vibrant bacterial and viral communities. ...
• New model can predict how bacteria develop antibiotic resistance
  Using theoretical models of bacterial metabolism and reproduction, scientists can predict the type of resistance that bacteria will develop when they are exposed to antibiotics. This has now been s...
• Low-cost and fast method to detect a COVID-19 infection
  Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is the most widely used diagnostic method to detect RNA viruses such as SARS-CoV-2. However, it requires expensive laboratory equipment and g...
• New type of ventilator for virus-free air
  The danger of becoming infected with the coronavirus is especially high in enclosed spaces. This is because aerosols - which play a key role in the transmission of COVID-19 - increase the concentra...
• Produce perfumes from recycled CO₂
  Coty Inc. (NYSE: COTY), one of the world's largest beauty companies and the global leader in fragrances, today announced it has signed a letter of intent to partner with LanzaTech to introduce sust...
• Boosting boron's utility
  Boron, a metalloid element that sits next to carbon in the periodic table, has many traits that make it potentially useful as a drug component. Nonetheless, only five FDA-approved drugs contain bor...
• Vegetable proteins replace petroleum-based raw materials
  Just like cellulose, lignin and fats, proteins are renewable raw materials. Their potential for the chemical industry remains largely untapped. Research teams at the Fraunhofer Institute for Proces...
• The water surface is a fantastic place for chemical reactions
  Using an advanced technique, scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research have demonstrated that a chemical reaction powered by light takes place ten thousand times faster at the air-w...
• New insights into the mechanism of nuclear fission
  Nuclear scientists from the University of Surrey and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have contributed to an international research collaboration to show how the angular momentum of the two f...
• Protective ship coatings as an underestimated source of microplastic pollution
  Shipping traffic can be a major source of tiny plastic particles floating in the sea, especially out in the open ocean. In a paper published in the scientific journal Environmental Science & Techno...