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• City trees provide cooling even in extreme heat
  When the sun is beating down, urban trees cool the surrounding area by evaporating water through their leaves. Given the expected increase in heat waves predicted by climate models, they play a cru...
• Evidence of Long-Sought "Quantum Spin Liquid" Discovered
  Since the 1970s, scientists have speculated whether materials could exist that exhibit a very particular form of magnetic disorder - so-called quantum spin liquids (QSLs).Such materials are of grea...
• Human-AI collectives make the most accurate medical diagnoses
  Artificial intelligence (AI) can effectively support doctors in making diagnoses. It makes different mistakes than humans-and this complementarity represents a previously untapped strength. An i...
• A building material that lives and stores carbon
  Researchers are developing a living material that actively extracts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Photosynthetic cyanobacteria grow inside it, forming biomass and solid minerals and thus bind...
• Dissolvable battery using probiotics
  In the Mission: Impossible films, superspy Ethan Hunt - played by Tom Cruise - gets orders from his superiors on various devices that self-destruct in five seconds. Could electronics disintegrat...
• Investigating safety aspects of manomaterials in lithium-ion batteries
  The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) is working with partners from Italy and France to investigate the safety of nanomaterials in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). The aim...
• How chemical bonds are formed: Physicists observe energy flow in real time
  A new method combines helium droplets with ultrashort laser pulses to initiate chemical processes in a controlled manner. This provides insights into the transfer of energy and charge during the fo...
• A miniature biocatalyst for hydrogen production
  Natural hydrogen-producing enzymes are large and extremely sensitive to oxygen. This makes it difficult to use them for the applied production of green hydrogen. Researchers from the Photobiote...
• Manipulating the microorganism T. kivui to metabolize carbon monoxide
  Genetic changes can occur naturally through evolution or can be initiated with the help of genetic engineering. The bacterium Thermoanaerobacter kivui (T. kivui) was manipulated by a research team ...
• PFAS: A Novel Path to Breaking Down "Forever Chemicals"
  Chemists at Goethe University, Frankfurt have developed a catalyst capable of breaking down per- and polyfluorinated organic substances (PFAS) - also known as "forever chemicals" - in a targeted ma...
• Minimizing ecological footprint in Europe's semiconductor industry
  A pan-European consortium dedicated to developing sustainable processes and technologies for the semiconductor-manufacturing supply chain announces the launch of the GENESIS project. This integrate...
• New discovery: nanopores can passively collect water from the air
  A serendipitous observation in a Chemical Engineering lab at Penn Engineering (University of Pennsylvania) has led to a surprising discovery: a new class of nanostructured materials that can pull w...
• Environmentally friendly options for offshore hydrogen production
  Green hydrogen is a key part of the energy transition. In the coming years, it'll be made in wind farms in the German Bight. With recent technology, this process creates waste heat and brine, which...
• Microplastics threaten resilience of Mediterranean corals
  The bay of Illa Grossa, located on a remote island in the Columbretes Islands marine reserve off the coast of Spain, is home to the only reef-forming stony coral species in the Mediterranean: Clado...
• Seals without PFAS, lubricated with water
  From ship propellers to wind turbine and harvesters, seals are crucial to ensuring functionality in any technical system with moving parts. To increase their durability, they have mainly been made ...
• New method for sustainable recycling of rare earths from electrolysers
  Hydrogen electrolysis cells contain rare earth metals. Once an electrolysis cell has done its job, the materials used in it currently end up as scrap steel. A research team at TU Bergakademie Freib...
• Ultra-thin lenses that make infrared light visible
  Lenses are the most widely used optical devices. Camera lens or objectives, for example, produce a sharp photo or video by directing light at a focal point. The speed of evolution made in the field...
• Broad-spectrum antiviral compounds discovered
  An interdisciplinary research team involving the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) has identified two antiviral drug candidates effective against a wide range of viruses. The study demons...
• Highly oxidised products from isoprene - underestimated source of aerosols in atmosphere?
  Highly sensitive detection methods allow ever deeper insights into complex chemical processes in the atmosphere: Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) in Leipzig f...
• Universal rules can help to design an optimal enzyme from scratch
  In biology, enzymes have evolved over millions of years to drive chemical reactions. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) now derived universal rules...
• A chip with natural blood vessels
  How can we investigate the effects of a new drug? How can we better understand the interaction between different organs to grasp the systemic response? In biomedical research, so-called organs-on-a...