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• Nickel atom aids carbon dioxide reduction
  Scientists are closer to finding ways to convert carbon dioxide in the atmosphere into industrially useful chemicals thanks to a RIKEN study that looked at how nature converts carbon dioxide into m...
• Opportunities and limitations for big data in addressing present and future pandemics
  The use of data has played a central role in the COVID-19 pandemic, but it should come as no surprise that researchers are already looking at ways to improve data acquisition, management, and acces...
• A scanning technology aimed at detecting small amounts of nuclear materials
  Bo Cederwall, a professor of physics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, says the technology can be used in airports and seaports for routine inspection of passengers and goods with the hope of p...
• Predicting NMR parameters with DLPNO approximation
  Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is one of the most important analytical techniques used in chemical, pharmaceutical, and biomedical research as well as in materials sciences. It provides detail...
• Exploring the origin of the elements
  Nuclear astrophysics is the science of how the elements of the periodic table have been created. This research field is served by a diverse set of research infrastructures of different sizes - from...
• NMR observation of difficult-to-access methyl groups
  An international research team involving the working group of biophysicist Dr. Manuel Etzkorn from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) has developed an approach for using NMR spectrometry to...
• Making potentially dangerous bacteria visible
  How can virulent bacteria be detected? The answer is: with sugar, or more precisely, with modified sugar. This is used in a new method developed by a German-Israeli team: chemist Professor Daniel B...
• How Organic Acids are formed in the atmosphere
  The acidity of the atmosphere is increasingly determined by carbon dioxide and organic acids such as formic acid. The second of these contribute to the formation of aerosol particles as a precursor...
• Crystalline supermirrors for trace gas detection
  In an international cooperation with partners from industry and research, physicists from the University of Vienna, together with Thorlabs, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...
• Artificial intelligence makes great microscopes better
  To observe the swift neuronal signals in a fish brain, scientists have started to use a technique called light-field microscopy, which makes it possible to image such fast biological processes in 3...
• Platinum-free biocatalyst for fuel cells and water electrolysis
  An enzyme could make a dream come true for the energy industry: It can efficiently produce hydrogen using electricity and can also generate electricity from hydrogen. The enzyme is protected by emb...
• New material can protect against resistant bacteria
  Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a new material that prevents infections in wounds - a specially designed hydrogel, that works against all types of bacteria,...
• Research accelerator: worldwide network develops SARS-CoV-2 proteine protocols for laboratories
  For the development of drugs or vaccines against COVID-19, research needs virus proteins of high purity. For most of the SARS-CoV-2 proteins, scientists at Goethe University Frankfurt and a total o...
• Completely new magnesium complexes
  The international scientific community agrees that the latest findings of an FAU research team will revolutionise the entire chemistry of magnesium. The research team have discovered magnesium, whi...
• Research with Neutrons for Better mRNA Medicines
  If not before, then certainly since the first messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines to combat the SARS CoV2 virus were approved in Germany, mRNA has become a recognized term even outside scientific circles...
• Telescope to study Einstein's theory
  An international group of astronomers, led by the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, Germany and the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver presents the first resu...
• Tracking down the tiniest of forces: how T cells detect invaders
  T-cells play a central role in our immune system: by means of their so-called T-cell receptors (TCR) they make out dangerous invaders or cancer cells in the body and then trigger an immune reaction...
• Nanoplastics - an underestimated problem?
  The images leave no one cold: giant vortices of floating plastic trash in the world's oceans with sometimes devastating consequences for their inhabitants - the sobering legacy of our modern lifest...
• Finding the key in understanding the plastic deformation of metals
  Metals are one of the most important materials in our civilization due to their excellent strength and formability. The possibility to permanently deform and shape metals without breaking, makes th...
• High Performance Ceramics against water germs
  Removing pathogens from drinking water is especially difficult when the germs are too tiny to be caught by conventional filters. Researchers at Empa and Eawag are developing new materials and proce...
• Transient grating spectroscopy with ultrafast X-rays
  Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have succeeded for the first time in looking inside materials using the method of transient grating spectroscopy with ultrafast X-rays at SwissFEL. Th...