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• Demonstration of technologically feasible read-out for ultrafast and stable magnetic memory
  Within spin-based electronics, i.e., spintronics, a novel approach promising ultrafast and stable magnetic memory is based on antiferromagnets as active elements. These materials without macrosc...
• New microscopy technique for quantum simulation
  Researchers from the Institute of Laser Physics at Universität Hamburg have developed a new technique for quantum gas microscopy that now allows imaging of three-dimensional quantum systems. In the...
• Amphiphilic copolymers for easy and versatile surface-biofunctionalization of materials
  A set of PEGylated styrene maleic acid(anhydride) copolymers with systematically varied molecular architecture for adsorptive surface biofunctionalization of bulk materials -"anchor polymers"- have...
• Novel, inexpensive catalysts enabling noble metal chemistry
  Alkynes have many uses in industry. Until now, it was assumed that gold- or platinum-based catalysts were absolutely necessary for certain chemical reactions with alkynes. Chemists at Martin Luther...
• Shaping a sustainable future for a common plastic
  A broad-based scientific team from government, academia and industry joins forces to identify new opportunities to reduce the environmental impact of polyurethane - one of the most widely used but ...
• Rainfall causes microplastic transport into the atmosphere
  Oceans, lakes and rivers often contain a large number of microplastic particles on their surface. Impacting raindrops cause many droplets with an almost equally high concentration of microplastics ...
• New group of antibacterial molecules identified
  Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, Umeå University, and the University of Bonn have identified a new group of molecules that have an antibacterial effect against many antibiotic-resistant bacter...
• Promising new solar cells relying on iron compounds as sensitizers
  Solar energy plays an important role in the fight against climate change as a substitute for fossil fuels. Dye-sensitized solar cells promise to be a low-cost supplement to the photovoltaic systems...
• Where does gold come from? - New insights into element synthesis in the universe
  How are chemical elements produced in our Universe? Where do heavy elements like gold and uranium come from? Using computer simulations, a research team from the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerione...
• Observe an inhomogeneous electron charge distribution on an atom for the first time
  Until now, observing subatomic structures was beyond the resolution capabilities of direct imaging methods, and this seemed unlikely to change. Czech scientists, however, have presented a method wi...
• Cheers! A gene-edited barley that could better your beer
  After a spell of unexpected rain, before the harvest season, a farmer may be faced with the unpredictable problem of untimely sprouting of barley. Sprouted barley fetches considerably low market pr...
• New Guide on performance and uncertainty in qualitative analysis
  The Eurachem/CITAC joint qualitative analysis working group is pleased to announce the release of a new guide on "Assessment of performance and uncertainty in qualitative chemical analysis". Qua...
• On the leap to new antiviral agents
  The Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIND) has announced the participants of the first SPRIND Challenge "A Quantum Leap for New Antiviral Agents". From 45 applications from Germany and E...
• Plasticizers can cause asthma and allergies
  Plastic products can be found everywhere in daily life, soft plastic in particular often being used for packaging or children's toys. These often contain so-called plasticizers which ensure that th...
• Electron family creates previously unknown state of matter
  An international research team from the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat-Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter has demonstrated a completely novel state of matter in a metal. It is created by the ...
• Reinventing chemical separation methods
  A project to develop new chemical processing technology that could save hundreds of millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions has begun at UK Universities, including Newcastle University. The ...
• Microbes may have lived in the underground for more than a billion years
  A study using the thermal history and biosignatures of the upper few kilometers of some of the oldest rocks on Earth place constraints on the evolutionary history of microbes in the deep biosphere....
• New methods for detecting single molecules
  Resistance to antibiotics is on the rise worldwide. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM alongside the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich have develop...
• Plant from plastics: Bio-based Polymers can be transformed into fertilizers
  Bioplastics can be chemically recycled into nitrogen-rich fertilizers in a facile and environmentally friendly way, as recently demonstrated by scientists from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo ...
• Turning wastewater from coffee production into electricity
  Delegates at COP26 will drink an estimated 250,000 cups of coffee over the two-week event, according to the caterers, Levy UK. None of us want to give up our daily cup of Joe, yet wastewater from p...
• Bioengineered bacteria to increase U.S. supply of rare earth metals
  To help increase the U.S. supply of rare earth metals, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) team has created a new way to recover rare earths using bioengineered bacteria. Rare earth ...
• How cells keep their nucleus clean: a fundamental discovery
  Scientists at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna have developed a CRISPR-Cas9 screening assay that allows to systematically pinpoint regulators of any gene of interest, i...