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• Bidding adieu to sticky ice, but with a grain of salt
  As Americans gear up for winter, many will face one of their toughest foes: ice. From delaying flights to making roads slippery, ice accumulation on surfaces wreaks havoc in many ways. But not ...
• Building an enzyme discovering AI
  While E. coli is one of the most studied organisms, the function of 30% of proteins that make up E. coli has not yet been clearly revealed. For this, an artificial intelligence was used to discover...
• A new generation of antimicrobial peptides
  The application of artificial intelligence methods for the generation of antimicrobial peptides will be the subject of research in the Deep Optimised Generation of AntiMicrobial Peptide (DOG-AMP) p...
• 60 years of European nuclear research
  The story of joint European nuclear research is almost as long as that of European integration itself. Over time, nuclear research achieved important results also in fields that are unrelated with ...
• Effect of aerosol particles on clouds and the climate
  Global measurements and model calculations show that the complex relationship between the chemistry and climate impact of aerosol particles can be successfully captured by a simple formula. The ...
• How microbes can combat climate change
  Prof. Michael Rother from TUD Dresden University of Technology is an expert in the biology of methane-producing microorganisms. In the spring of this year, he was invited by the American Academy of...
• Quest for new antibiotics: synthetic biology combined with artificial intelligence
  The rising resistance of bacteria to antibiotics presents an escalating global health risk. Now, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology have combined synthetic biology...
• A look behind the scenes of machine learning in drug research
  Artificial intelligence (AI) is on the rise. Until now, AI applications generally have "black box" character: How AI arrives at its results remains hidden. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bajorath, a cheminformat...
• Aerosols: When scents influence our climate
  One of the great unknowns in climate models is the behavior of certain gases that often smell strongly and cause water to condense. TU Wien (Vienna) is providing new insights into this. It has ...
• Hundreds of toxic chemicals in recycled plastics
  When scientists examined pellets from recycled plastic collected in 13 countries they found hundreds of toxic chemicals, including pesticides and pharmaceuticals. The results are published in a stu...
• Pushing the limits of gas sensing technology
  Harmful gases, such as nitrogen dioxide, are commonplace in industrial settings. However, existing gas sensors are expensive and complex, which has limited their widespread adoption. In a recent st...
• Understanding the dynamic behavior of rubber materials
  Researchers present a novel experimental system for simultaneous measurement of dynamic mechanical properties and X-ray computed tomography. Rubber-like materials can exhibit both spring-like and f...
• Pushing the limits of DNA
  The team of Professor Michal Hocek at IOCB Prague explores the limits of the structure and function of DNA and successfully pushes forward known boundaries. An article presenting the results of the...
• Liquid metals shake up century-old chemical engineering processes
  Liquid metals could be the long-awaited solution to "greening" the chemical industry, according to researchers who tested a new technique they hope can replace energy-intensive chemical engineering...
• How instructions for gene expression are relayed
  The 'read-write' mechanism by which cells replicate and use chemical instructions for expressing genes has been uncovered by RIKEN researchers. The quality and quantity of gene expression corre...
• Phytoplankton uptake of methylmercury is controlled by thiols
  Methylmercury is one of the chemicals that poses the greatest threat to global public health. People ingest methylmercury by eating fish, but how does the mercury end up in the fish? A new study sh...
• New designs for solid-state electrolytes may soon revolutionize the battery industry
  Researchers led by Professor Kang Kisuk of the Center for Nanoparticle Research within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), have announced a major breakthrough in the field of next-generation sol...
• Good bacteria for bad wounds
  Empa researchers are developing a dressing containing probiotic lactobacilli. These are intended to heal chronically infected wounds by destroying persistent biofilms, the scientists report in a st...
• Neutralising antibodies that target resistant bacteria
  Antibiotic-resistant bacteria pose a major challenge to healthcare systems worldwide. Due to numerous resistance mechanisms, infections with the pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa are particularly fea...
• Atomic picture of dengue replication could transform antiviral approaches
  A detailed atomic exploration into how the dengue virus replicates its genome could catalyze the development of high-precision targeted antiviral therapeutics. Dengue is one of the most common infe...
• Ultrafast x-ray pulses force atoms to give up their electronic secrets
  A new spectroscopy technique developed by RIKEN researchers could help reveal the inner workings of metal catalysts and the proteins involved in photosynthesis in plants1. The method is based on...
• Fossil lipids as biomarkers for oxygen-producing primordial bacteria
  Cyanobacteria are a key species in Earth's history, as they introduced atmospheric oxygen for the first time. The analysis of their evolution therefore provides important insights into the formatio...