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• Personal space chemistry suppressed by perfume and body lotion indoors
  In 2022 a team led by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry discovered that high levels of OH radicals can be generated indoors, simply due to the presence of people and ozone. This means: People ...
• Guidelines for the standardised quantification of oxidised fatty acids using LC-MS
  Fatty acids and the substances formed from them play an important role in inflammation in the human body - and therefore also in health and disease progression. However, the quantitative analysis o...
• Dishwashing containers a source of microplastic pollution
  Washing household plastic containers in a dishwasher releases nanoplastic and microplastic pollution into wastewater, University of Queensland researchers have found. Dr Elvis Okoffo from UQ's Q...
• Picometric spectroscopy of hydrogen molecules in atomic-scale cavities
  An international research team, led by Akitoshi Shiotari of the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society (Germany), Mariana Rossi of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics o...
• Boosting Atomic Force Microscopy with faster, wider scanning
  A team of Lithuanian scientists has developed a breakthrough method that drastically increases the speed and surface coverage of atomic force microscopy (AFM), enabling scans across millimetre-scal...
• Deciphering Cellular Logistics: A First Blueprint of Chemical Transport Pathways
  An unprecedented international effort to decode how cells manage the transport of chemical substances has culminated in four groundbreaking studies published in Molecular Systems Biology. Led b...
• Using adhesive tape to efficiently convert mechanical energy into electricity
  A research team at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has published a new paper in American Chemical Society Omega that demonstrates inexpensive store-bought tape can be used to craft a ...
• AI predicts bacterial resistance to cleaning agents
  A group of researchers, including scientists from the DTU National Food Institute, have developed a method that, with the help of artificial intelligence and DNA decoding, can predict how well dise...
• A new tool that significantly simplifies and accelerates the genetic analysis of viruses
  Researchers from Cluster of Excellence "Balance of Microverse" at the University of Jena, in collaboration with international partners, have developed a new tool that significantly simplifies and a...
• New hope against superbugs: Promising antibiotic candidate discovered
  An international team of researchers, led by the University of Vienna and the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, has discovered saarvienin A, a new type of glycopeptide antib...
• Glyphosate can come from detergent additives
  Certain detergent additives known as aminopolyphosphonates can be transformed into glyphosate and other problematic substances when wastewater is treated. A research team led by Professor Stefan Ha...
• Understanding carbon traps: how it locks CO₂ into place
  As industries seek innovative solutions for carbon capture, scientists have turned to advanced materials that efficiently trap and store carbon dioxide from industrial emissions. A recent study...
• Mercury levels in the atmosphere have decreased throughout the 21st century
  Mercury is released by environmental and human-driven processes. And some forms, specifically methylmercury, are toxic to humans. Therefore, policies and regulations to limit mercury emissions have...
• Energy-efficient and cost-effective systems that use urea to generate hydrogen
  The unique systems reveal new pathways to economically generate 'green' hydrogen, a sustainable and renewable energy source, and the potential to remediate nitrogenous waste in aquatic environments...
• New method of single-cell transcriptomics
  Not all individuals in a population of bacteria are identical. Some may be on the verge of cell division, others are differentiating, others are in the process of adapting to changing environmental...
• PFAS influence cellular immune response to coronavirus
  Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are ubiquitous, accumulate in the environment and are difficult to break down. They are known as "forever chemicals". PFAS can compromise the immune syste...
• Identifying pathogens with mass spectrometry
  Speed and reliability are crucial in the diagnosis of diseases. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Imperial College London have developed a new method to identify bacteria ...
• Sustainable nickel for global electrification
  To combat climate change and achieve a climate-neutral industry, carbon emissions must be drastically reduced. A key part of this transition is replacing carbon-based energy carriers with electrici...
• Einstein's Theory of Relativity put to the test
  Using a set of extremely accurate atomic clocks in space, theoretical physicists hope to test Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. The ESA experiment ACES was launched into space last we...
• Battery research: visualisation of aging processes operando
  Lithium button cells with electrodes made of nickel-manganese-cobalt oxides (NMC) are very powerful. Unfortunately, their capacity decreases over time. Now, for the first time, a team has used a no...
• Enhancing the sustainability of plastics using sulphur waste
  Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have found a way to make plastics more sustainable by utilizing sulphur waste from the petroleum refining process. They have developed a method that al...
• 3D bioprinting: New bioink for a better transport of nutrients
  (How) can we 3D print tissues that mimic the complex anatomy of natural body tissue as closely as possible? 3D bioprinting is a great hope in the field of regenerative medicine to produce miniaturi...