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- A new tool for chirality investigations
Information on complex magnetic structures is crucial to understand and develop spintronic materials. Now, a new instrument named ALICE II is available at BESSY II. It allows magnetic X-ray scat... - ZEISS microscope developers win the Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2022
The President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, awarded the Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2022, The Federal President's Award for Technology and Innovation, to the team from ZEISS during a festive cer... - EU project for Carbon Neutral European Battery Cell Production
The EU Horizon project "Carbon Neutral European Battery Cell Production with Sustainable, Innovative Processes and 3D Electrod Design to Manufacture (BatWoMan) has been kicked-off. The BatWoMan ... - Iron isotopes in samples from asteroid suggest its origin to lie at the end of the solar system
The asteroid Ryugu likely formed at the outer edge of the Solar System beyond the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn, as high-precision measurements that determine the ratio of iron isotopes in rock samp... - Basic research for high-performance batteries
Physicist Prof. Dr. Kerstin Volz and physical chemist Prof. Dr. Jürgen Janek will receive the 2022 Greve Prize from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina for their fundamental insights... - Innovative graphite recycling awarded as top European innovation
Each year, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) celebrates the entrepreneurial and societal achievements of its innovators. They are honored with the EIT Awards in four categor... - The potential of nanomedicine to cure the incurable
Scientists at RMIT University say their new research advances the potential of nanomedicine to cure conditions that are currently incurable, such as dementia and motor neurone disease. Their work e... - Discovery of exciting bacteria that may break down gluten
A research team from Umeå University, SLU and Algeria has found bacteria, with a number of interesting properties, in previously unexplored caves at a depth of several hundred meters in Algeria. On... - Monitoring of the environmental impact of the North Stream's gas leak
The University of Gothenburg has deployed three underwater robots in the Baltic waters around the leaks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines. This is done to be able to follow how chemistry and life in... - How photosynthesis adapted to the rise of oxygen
The central biocatalyst in Photosynthesis, Rubisco, is the most abundant enzyme on earth. But how did Rubisco evolve, and how did it adapt to environmental changes during Earth's history? By re... - Barium detected in an exoplanet atmosphere
Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), astronomers have discovered the heaviest element ever found in an exoplanet atmosphere - barium. They were surprised ... - Funding for researchers working on plastic recycling enzymes
The number of new and poorly characterised proteins available in metagenomic databases, such as EMBL-EBI's MGnify, is in the billions and growing rapidly as new data from different environments is ... - Discovery of a new antibiotic against resistant pathogens
For a long time, antibiotics were considered a silver bullet against bacterial infections. Over time, many pathogens have adapted to resist antibiotics, so the search for new drugs is becoming incr... - New abiotic pathway for the formation of oxygen
Oxygen plays a crucial role for all living organisms on Earth. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have now found evidence that double ionised sulphur dioxide contribute to the formation of... - A powerful LED can efficiently disinfect surfaces, while remaining safe for humans
A highly efficient LED that is deadly to microbes and viruses but safe for people has been engineered by three RIKEN physicists1. It could one day help countries emerge from the shadows of pandemic... - EU research project: Novel nanocoatings guard against viruses and bacteria
An EU research project led by the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) and the University of Birmingham is developing nanocoatings that inactivate viruses and bacteria. This shoul... - Improving the process for turning hard-to-recycle plastic waste into fuel
urning plastic waste into useful products through chemical recycling is one strategy for addressing Earth's growing plastic pollution problem. A new study may improve the ability of one method, cal... - Artificial enzyme splits water
Progress has been made on the path to sunlight-driven production of hydrogen. Chemists from Würzburg present a new enzyme-like molecular catalyst for water oxidation. Mankind is facing a centra... - The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022: It just says click - and the molecules are coupled together
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 is about making difficult processes easier. Barry Sharpless and Morten Meldal have laid the foundation for a functional form of chemistry - click chemistry - in wh... - A rapid, highly sensitive method to measure SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater
A simple and economical method of detecting SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in wastewater with high sensitivity has been developed, expanding the use of wastewater-based epidemiology for tracking the virus ... - Adaptive imaging technique for materials science and structural biology
A new technique that combines electron microscopy and laser technology enables programmable, arbitrary shaping of electron beams. It can potentially be used for optimizing electron optics and for a... - Labs of the future - fully networked
In daily operations, lab managers usually have to monitor and manage multiple systems. If information on devices, about people and running processes is disjointed and spread across numerous data si...