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• AI rebuilds molecules from exploding fragments
  Researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States, European XFEL, and collaborating institutions recently built a generative AI model that can recreate molecular structur...
• Membranes - an invisible layer with a major impact on fuel cells
  How can fuel cells be made more efficient and longer-lasting - and what role does a membrane just a few micrometers thick play? This question is addressed by a recent study conducted by the Univers...
• A new type of iron-storing protein
  Microbes are amazing chemists, performing reactions to recycle biological matter, depolluting environments, and contributing to Earth's biogeochemical cycles. Among them are anaerobic methanotrophs...
• New findings on the first steps in protein synthesis
  In the earliest phase of creating human proteins, the protein complex NAC performs an essential task by starting the first steps towards folding proteins into their correct three-dimensional struct...
• Unmasking mutagens in products and water
  Substances capable of mutating human genetic material - altering and permanently damaging it - are present in many everyday products. Researchers at Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) have, for...
• New scattered light method enables faster analysis of bacteria and antibiotic resistance
  Time is a critical factor in treating bacterial infections. While pathogens multiply rapidly, their identification in conventional diagnostics often takes several hours or even days. This is partic...
• Mystery of quinine biosynthesis solved
  Newly discovered enzymes found in the cinchona tree play a crucial role in the production of the malaria drug quinine and other important alkaloids. This opens up possibilities for the biotechnolog...
• High-resolution electron microscopy sheds light into the cellular responses to stress
  An international team led by researchers from the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Germany, has used advanced electron microscopy technologies to capture key cellular mechanisms of stress...
• How proteins function reliably even without a stable 3D structure
  Many proteins do not only consist of stably folded components. They also contain flexible parts known as intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), which do not form any stable three-dimensional stru...
• Innovative battery materials for safe and sustainable energy storage
  Batteries must be powerful, safe, and sustainable - at the same time, they must be cost-effective to produce. At InterBattery 2026 in Seoul, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP wi...
• Proton radius puzzle solved by experiments on hydrogen
  Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ), Garching, in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Randolf Pohl from the Institute for Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU),...
• Boron helps to produce key proteins for new cancer therapies
  Chemists from ETH Zurich have found a way to produce poorly soluble proteins by caging a uniquely reactive boron compound. This method opens up new possibilities for the synthesis of tailored prote...
• X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy helps to track molecules breaking apart in real time
  When molecules fall apart, their electric charge doesn't stay put-it rearranges as bonds stretch and break. An international team of scientists has now tracked these ultrafast changes in the small ...
• Sustainable and cheaper catalysts from aluminium
  A research team at King's have isolated a new form of aluminium - a highly abundant metal, that could provide a far cheaper and more sustainable alternative to commonly used precious metals. Dr ...
• BPA free receipt paper from wood
  EPFL researchers have developed formulations for the kind of paper used in cash receipts or shipping tags using wood-based chemicals that reduces reliance on toxic bisphenols while keeping print pe...
• A flexible polymer enables better solid-state batteries
  Solid-state batteries do not use flammable liquid electrolytes and are therefore safer than conventional lithium-ion batteries. Empa researchers have developed a solid electrolyte based on a stretc...
• Photocatalytic material class: high expectations of polyheptazine imides confirmed
  Photocatalysis promises an efficient conversion of abundant solar energy into usable chemical energy. Polyheptazine imides have some key structural and functional twists that make them especially i...
• Thermography-based method for efficient sorting of black plastics
  While transparent plastic packaging and colorful cups can be easily recognized and automatically sorted, black plastic parts often remain "invisible" to sorting machines - and consequently end up i...
• Microfluidics system boosts super-resolution microscopy
  Understanding how cells are organized and how their molecular components interact in a coordinated and cooperative manner is a central goal of modern life sciences. To answer these questions, resea...
• A "Plug" for Light-Controlled Chips
  Addressing a photonic microchip that is driven by light just as easily as electronic components via a "plug", rather than by expending extensive experimental effort: this vision has now been realiz...
• New water-treatment system removes nitrogen, phosphorus from farm tile drainage
  Scientists have developed a new edge-of-field water-treatment system that reduces the load of excess nutrients washing into waterways from farm drainage systems. Their method combines a woodchi...
• Why our immune system remembers vaccinations for decades
  Why can the human immune system often remember a vaccination for a whole lifetime? Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen have now ...