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• New control material to improve protection of consumers from food poisoning
  A new certified reference material (CRM) will help food control laboratories across the EU and beyond to improve detection of cereulide, a toxin that can cause serious food poisoning. The CRM will ...
• Sucrose as a possible detector material for dark matter
  The nature of dark matter remains a mystery. Particles of different masses are possible candidates. For some time now, researchers have been searching for very light dark matter particles, for whic...
• Shapes, signals, and boundaries: how cells turn physics into information
  Insights from theoretical physics are helping scientists understand how living cells process information and use it to self-organise. A flock of birds, an ant colony, heavy traffic on a highway - w...
• Artificial DNA base pair developed based on halogen bonds
  A research team at the University of Cologne has developed an artificial DNA base pair that works according to a new chemical principle. In contrast to natural bases, the novel artificial base pair...
• Looking through X-ray glasses: Aging processes in sodium-zinc molten salt batteries
  Up to now, it has only been possible to deduce indirectly why high-temperature batteries lose efficiency and durability while in use. For the first time, a team from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-R...
• Ways to replace PFAS in systems subject to friction and wear
  Scientists at Fraunhofer IWM have developed and tested a substitution chain for lubricants and seals containing PFAS in a project funded by the state of Baden-Württemberg and a Fraunhofer project. ...
• Explaining next-generation solar cells
  Despite being riddled with impurities and defects, solution-processed lead-halide perovskites are surprisingly efficient at converting solar energy into electricity. Their efficiency is approaching...
• Functional coating made from proteins and bacteria makes harmful UV-light visible
  T-shirts that warn of excessive sun exposure or labels that reveal damage to light sensitive materials: researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a coating that makes t...
• Seeing how atoms vibrate at the Angstrom scale
  Probing the vibration of atoms provides detailed information on local structure and bonding that define material properties. Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) offers extremely high resolution ...
• Robust, chip-based pH measurement available for research and practical applications
  Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS has achieved another breakthrough in pH measurement technology. Researchers have developed a new technology that makes pH measurements significan...
• New co-infection strategies of fungi and bacteria discovered
  Rivals or allies - how do bacteria and fungi interact in our bodies? Until now, bacteria on our mucous membranes were primarily considered to be antagonists of fungi, as they can inhibit their grow...
• Sustainable and efficient production of ammonia and formic acid
  A research team led by Dr. Dandan Gao from the Department of Chemistry at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has developed a new method for the sustainable production of ammonia and formic a...
• Bio-mining from electronic waste: recycling process with bacteria and CO₂
  Researchers at BTU are working on a new type of recycling process for electronic waste: metals such as copper, gold and silver are recovered from old circuit boards with the help of microorganisms....
• Sustainable Polyurethane Production Without Toxic Isocyanate
  Polyurethanes (PUR) are found in many products, such as upholstered furniture, foam or insulation materials, flooring, paints and even medical catheter tubes. The production of these high-demand pl...
• New online platform makes CDR approaches transparent and comparable
  How can carbon dioxide be permanently removed from the atmosphere? Which approaches are realistic, meaningful and responsible? The Carbon Removal Atlas (CDRatlas) now provides answers to these ques...
• Quickly and precisely localizing radioactive material
  Radioactive, chemical or biological substances are undetectable to humans in threatening situations and difficult to detect with remote sensing. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Commun...
• A quantum leap in optical microscopy
  Researchers from Regensburg and Birmingham overcome a fundamental limitation of optical microscopy. With the help of quantum mechanical effects, they succeed for the first time in performing optica...
• New electrochemical processes transform environmental toxins into valuable raw materials
  Halogenated chemicals are indispensable in countless everyday products - from pesticides and flame retardants in electronics to medical contrast agents. However, their chemical stability, which mak...
• Polymer cables for MRI applications
  Magnetic resonance imaging, MRI for short, is a powerful imaging technique in medicine. It can be used to produce high-resolution images of tissues and organs that reveal even the tiniest injuries,...
• Discovered by chance: the refractive-index microscope
  A remarkable success has been achieved at TU Wien: by combining two fundamentally different microscopy techniques, researchers can now measure the optical properties of a sample with pinpoint accur...