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• Understanding COVID-19 using next generation innovative, interdisciplinary methodologies
  A new JRC study on SARS-CoV-2 examines the existing literature on how this coronavirus enters and infects the human body, exploring how scientists are currently using new innovative technologies ba...
• New understanding of electron interactions
  Electrons flow through most materials more like a gas than a fluid, meaning they don't interact much with one another. It was long hypothesized that electrons could flow like a fluid, but only rece...
• Filming antibiotic resistance in slow-motion
  Using the X-ray laser European XFEL an international team of researchers has successfully filmed a reaction step that is important for the development of antibiotic resistance. The molecular film c...
• Investigating radioactivity in Chernobyl exclusion zone
  It is now 35 years since news of the catastrophic reactor accident in Chernobyl spread around the globe. While the impact on Germany is barely perceptible nowadays, Ukraine continues to suffer seri...
• 3D-printed, microscopic gas sensors-painters' pallets without even a hint of pigment
  Scientists from Trinity and AMBER, the SFI Research Centre for Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research, have discovered a way to fabricate tiny colour-changing gas sensors using new material...
• How resistant germs transport toxins at molecular level
  In order to counter the increasing threat posed by multi-drug resistant germs, we need to understand how their resistance mechanisms work. Transport proteins have an important role to play in this ...
• New particles of negative mass discovered
  A large international research collaboration led by Dr Kai-Qiang Lin and Professor John Lupton from the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics at the University of Regensburg has been able t...
• Spintronics: miniature terahertz sources
  Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and Freie Universität Berlin have developed a new, simple approach for generating terahertz radiation. Strong optical laser pulses ena...
• Study provides evidence for "new physics"
  Is the Standard Model of particle physics incorrect at key points? Recently there has been an increase in experimental observations that deviate from the predictions of this widely accepted physica...
• Exploring proteins from insect larvae for the production of a bioadhesive
  The demand for biocompatible, biodegradable, and environmentally friendly adhesives has increased greatly in recent years, but no industrial use of these substances is currently in sight. The caddi...
• Eco-friendly process for synthesizing organic materials for high-performance materials industry
  Until now, the production of materials from organic substances was only possible with the use of highly toxic solvents. A team led by chemist Miriam Unterlass, Professor at the University of Konsta...
• First programmable photocatalyst developed
  Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces have developed a sustainable and "smart photocatalyst". The special feature: as a so-called smart material, it can distinguish bet...
• Exploring Chirality with an X-ray Laser
  An international team of scientists led by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, European XFEL, and the University of Kassel performed a pioneering study on exploring chirality using ultrashort and...
• How Confined Protons Migrate
  Protons in aqueous solution can usually migrate very quickly - much faster compared to other ions. However, this only applies when they are in a space greater than two nanometers, as a study from R...
• New Synthesis Method for Cathode Materials for High Energy Lithium Ion Batteries
  Nickel-rich layered oxides such as lithium nickel cobalt aluminium oxides (NCA) are promising cathode materials for high-energy lithium ion batteries. The addition of aluminium improves the thermal...
• Becquerel Prize from the European Commission for Ulrike Jahn
  Ulrike Jahn, Senior Expert at VDE Renewables, receives this year's Becquerel Prize from the European Commission. It will be awarded during the digital event 'European PV Solar Energy Conference and...
• Long-standing biological search problem has been solved
  How the cell can mend broken DNA using another DNA copy as template has puzzled researchers for years. How is it possible to find the correct sequences in the busy interior of the cell? Researchers...
• How destructive formations develop in batteries
  Tiny formations inside lithium batteries can severely limit the operating life of an energy storage device. A research team at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) has now investigated the process be...
• A New Catalyst to Generate Hydrogen from Ammonia at Low Temperatures
  Ammonia, a carbon-free resource can be split into nitrogen and hydrogen gas with the help of metal catalysts like Nickel (Ni). However, these reactions often require very high operating temperature...
• Bio-Based Products from mixed biowaste are profitable
  The market assessment included consideration of CAFIPLA processes and four potential future products. CAFIPLA target products include polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), which can be used as biobased and ...
• A unique scanning tunnelling microscope with magnetic cooling to study quantum effects
  Scanning tunnelling microscopes capture images of materials with atomic precision and can be used to manipulate individual molecules or atoms. Researchers have been using the instruments for many y...
• Visualizing Molecular Motion of Substituted 9-Phosphaanthracene
  Radical reactivity of aromatic molecules 9-phosphaanthracenes is difficult to analyze using conventional techniques due to their short lifetimes. To overcome this analytical hurdle, a team of scien...