Search Latest News

Latest news from laboratory, environment, chemistry, life science and quality control

• New method to unveil biological processes
  Developing our understanding of biological processes can lead to better treatments for disease. Now, an international team involving the European X-ray Free Electron Laser (European XFEL) has devel...
• How molecular motors convert chemical energy into mechanical work
  Molecular motors are complex devices composed of many different parts that consume energy to perform various cellular activities. In short, molecular machines transform energy into useful work. Und...
• Building chemical sensors to combat climate crisis
  The therapy our ailing planet needs is a major change in energy and agricultural practices, and improved monitoring. Mate Bezdek, formerly a researcher at MIT and now an assistant professor at the ...
• Surface imaging technique illuminates potential improvements in plastics production
  Consider the humble plastic food wrapper. It may seem like a simple clear film that wraps a loaf of bread or fruit gummies, but these films are less simply composed as it seems. Each individual lay...
• Position Paper: Taking biotech research to the next level
  Work in the laboratory has been changing for a while now: Robots are taking over repetitive tasks, high throughput technologies are generating tremendous amounts of data that are analyzed with the ...
• Premiere for superconducting diode without external magnetic field
  Superconductors are the key to lossless current flow. However, the realization of superconducting diodes has only recently become an important topic of fundamental research. An international resear...
• The mysteries of cosmic dust
  Researchers of the ETH Zurich and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS have closely analysed the characteristics of cosmic dust based on laboratory experiments and measureme...
• Automated measurement of microplastic contamination in water
  Jens Pfeiffer and Valentin Meiler are funded by the EXIST Start-up Grant from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection and the European Social Fund (ESF). The funding amount for "MY...
• New test may predict Covid-19 immunity
  Most people in the United States have some degree of immune protection against Covid-19, either from vaccination, infection, or a combination of the two. But, just how much protection does any indi...
• Safe and efficient transport of Hydrogen: energy in Iron and its Oxides
  Transporting green-generated energy in form of iron: That is the vision of a project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and coordinated by the University of Duisburg-Es...
• Interactive map of metabolical synthesis of chemicals
  A research team comprised of Woo Dae Jang, Gi Bae Kim, and Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at KAIST reported an interactive metabolic...
• How water turns into ice - with quantum accuracy
  A team based at Princeton University has accurately simulated the initial steps of ice formation by applying artificial intelligence (AI) to solving equations that govern the quantum behavior of in...
• New understanding of water electrolysis
  Water electrolysis is a key technology to establish CO₂-neutral hydrogen production. One of the key technological hurdles is the design of stable, active and affordable catalysts for the anodic oxy...
• Shining a light on how bacteria interact
  The ways in which bacteria infect cells are important for understanding host-pathogen interactions. The knowledge also opens up a world of practical applications. For example, it can support the...
• Ancient source of oxygen for life hidden deep in the Earth's crust
  Scientists at Newcastle University have uncovered a source of oxygen that may have influenced the evolution of life before the advent of photosynthesis. The pioneering research project, led by N...
• Discovering how heavy elements were made
  Nuclear physicists at RIKEN have measured the mass of a neutron-rich nucleus of the element palladium to a greater accuracy than ever before1. When this mass is fed into models of merging neutron s...
• Cryo-EM and protein NMR 3D snapshots reveal sophisticated mechanism of action of a bacterial Tc toxin
  A harmful and often deadly substance made by bacteria, a bacterial toxin manipulates host cell functions and disrupts vital cell processes in a living organism. Bacterial toxins hit host organisms ...
• Produce Antibiotics from natural substances using a new biosynthesis method
  The use of the element fluorine to modify active substances is an important tool in modern drug development. A team at Goethe University Frankfurt has now achieved an important "first" by successfu...
• Light as a tool for the synthesis of complex molecules
  Chemists at the University of Münster have developed a novel and straightforward way to produce complex organic molecules. Mild reaction conditions, simple operation, scalability and the use of an ...
• New assessment of the flavouring substance acetaldehyde
  Acetaldehyde occurs naturally in many foods and is also used as a flavouring substance due to its fruity aroma. The Senate Commission on the Food Safety (German SKLM) of the German Research Foundat...
• Researchers study historical developments of the periodic system of chemical elements
  In the 1860s, the chemists, Lothar Meyer and Dmitri Mendeleev, independently presented the first periodic system. Since then, the well-known tabular arrangement of the elements has been the guiding...
• Porous Crystals Bind Fluorine-containing Greenhouse Gases
  Emissions of greenhouse gases contribute significantly to global warming. Not only carbon dioxide (CO₂) but also fluorine-containing gases - including so-called per- or polyfluorinated hydrocarbons...
• Evolutionary model predicts partitioning of molecules within cells
  Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) in Göttingen, Germany, and Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, have developed a new theoretical me...