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• Dual-comb spectroscopy: Previously unknown properties of the element samarium revealed
  Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) have developed a novel method for investigating the internal structure of atoms and discovered previ...
• A molecule for important step toward artificial photosynthesis
  A research team from the University of Basel has developed a new molecule modeled on plant photosynthesis: under the influence of light, it stores two positive and two negative charges at the same ...
• Nanodroplets could speed up the search for new medicine
  Until now, the early phase of drug discovery for the development of new therapeutics has been both cost- and time-intensive. Researchers at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) have now develope...
• Ångström-scale optical microscopy
  Our remarkable ability to perform complex tasks-such as thinking, observing, and touch-stems from proteins, the tiny nanometer-sized molecules in the body. Despite decades of research, our understa...
• New method enables direct measurement of partial charges in molecules
  An international research team led by the University of Vienna has succeeded in developing a new method to directly measure partial charges in molecules. The results, now published in Nature, p...
• A new microscope for ultra-sensitive samples
  How can you produce the best possible image in a microscope without destroying the sample? A new trick enables gentle imaging with maximum image quality. Everyone who ever took a photo knows th...
• Predicting the chaos created by bubbles
  A team of international researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Johns Hopkins University and Duke University has discovered that a century-old theory describing turbulence...
• Environmentally friendly battery production: Recycling process for dry processed cathodes
  Innovative production processes such as dry electrode processing are a crucial milestone towards a more environmentally friendly and cost-effective battery cell production. This approach completely...
• Observing a special form of light propagation in an atom-thin metal for the first time
  Today, it is studied with electron microscopes; tomorrow, it could itself become a microscope: a metal only one atom thick can bend, guide, and confine light in its plane and on an extremely small ...
• 5D crystallography method captures protein dynamics at physiological temperatures
  An interdisciplinary research team from Hamburg has developed a novel method that allows for time-resolved structural studies of proteins across a wide temperature range, including physiologically ...
• Rapeseed proteins as a valuable source of plant-based protein alternatives
  Food products containing proteins from plants, fungi or algae are becoming increasingly popular. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes CBP in Leuna, Germany, ...
• Neurotoxic? New chemical screening approach provides rapid answers
  Approximately 350,000 chemicals are predicted to be commercially available worldwide. Little is known about which chemicals are potentially neurotoxic, meaning harmful to the (developing) brain. To...
• Targeted production of artificial proteins with unique properties
  The targeted engineering of artificial proteins with unique properties - that is possible with the assistance of a novel method developed by a research team led by Prof. Dr Dominik Niopek at the In...
• 'Super alcohol' created in space-like lab reveals cosmic secrets
  University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers in the Department of Chemistry have created a molecule once thought too unstable to exist called methanetetrol using extreme, space-like conditions. The di...
• Observing the formation of new bonds in individual molecules
  Researchers at European XFEL in Germany have tracked in real time the movement of individual atoms during a chemical reaction in the gas phase. Using extremely short X-ray flashes, they were able t...
• New Lancet Countdown on Plastics and Health
  Plastic pollution and contamination constitute a growing danger for the health of human beings, wildlife, and the Earth's ecosystem: scientific experts warn of this in a recent article in the journ...
• New method makes differences between left- and right-handed structures visible in color
  Why do spearmint and caraway seeds smell so differently, although their main scent molecules are almost identical? Why can a medicine save lives, while its mirror image is ineffective or even harmf...
• Developing an artificial intelligence method to discover bioactive molecules
  Metabolites are molecules that arise as intermediate or end products of an organism's metabolism. In fungi and plants in particular, they exhibit an enormous structural diversity, which offers sign...
• New method for the mechanical formation of three-dimensional molecular structures
  Threads or ropes can easily be used for braiding, knotting, and weaving. In chemistry, however, processing molecular strands in this way is an almost impossible task. This is because molecules are ...
• A DNA analysis device that can be made on a 3D printer
  University of Queensland researchers have developed an affordable, open-source DNA measurement tool that can be built using a home 3D printer. The Do-It-Yourself Nucleic Acid Fluorometer - DIYNA...
• Microscopic study of individual water molecules on calcite surfaces
  Calcite is one of the most common minerals on earth and plays a central role in natural and technical processes. "By understanding how water interacts with the calcite surface, we can better answer...