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The mercury test of catalysts that has been used and considered universal for 100 years, turned out to be ambiguous. This conclusion was made by a group of scientists including a RUDN chemist. The ... - Discovering where tetracyclines go in human cells
We know that antibiotics treat bacterial infections. We also know why they work. Tetracycline antibiotics, for example, stop bacteria from making protein. Like a boot on a wheel, the drugs bind to ... - How plants bind their green pigment chlorophyll
Whenever you see green color out in nature, you are likely to look at chlorophyll. This is the pigment used by all plants to do photosynthesis. There are two versions, chlorophyll a and chlorophyll... - Novel X-ray microscope to produce microstructural images in situ and in vivo
An interdisciplinary team of scientists will develop a new imaging method to investigate osteoporosis and other bone diseases in living subjects. Prof. Silke Christiansen, a scientist at HZB and ph... - Understanding cell identity by creating maps of genetic networks
As part of a series marking the 10th anniversary of the European Research Council, ERC grantees Wolfgang Huber - EMBL group leader - and Oliver Stegle, group leader at EMBL and the German Cancer Re... - Existence of blue phosphorus proved
Until recently, the existence of "blue" phosphorus was pure theory: Now an HZB team was able to examine samples of blue phosphorus at BESSY II for the first time and confirm via mapping of their el... - Biological warfare with insects?
Owing to present-day armed conflicts, the general public is well aware of the terrifying effects of chemical weapons. Meanwhile, the effects of biological weapons have largely disappeared from publ... - Permanent, wireless self-charging system using NIR Band
As wearable devices are emerging, there are numerous studies on wireless charging systems. Here, a KAIST research team has developed a permanent, wireless self-charging platform for low-power weara... - Report explores changing face of science research facilities
Changes in the nature of work will impact future lab design, according to a new Arup report, as science labs and research facilities become technology enabled, with flexible spaces allowing for col... - The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018 with one half to Frances H. Arnold, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA "for the directed ... - Artificial enzymes convert solar energy into hydrogen gas
In a new scientific article, researchers at Uppsala University describe how, using a completely new method, they have synthesised an artificial enzyme that functions in the metabolism of living cel... - Particles rich in silicates and water ice detected in saturn's ring rain
The Cassini Huygens Mission is one of the most exciting missions to explore the Solar System. For the first time it offered the possibility to analyze saturn's ring rain. Scientific planning and mi... - Ageing is visible in the way cells use glucose
Getting older means a few more wrinkles and grey hairs. Deep down, ageing also entails a functional decline of your cells and especially of stem cells. A research team from EMBL and Heidelberg Univ... - Heterometallic copper-aluminum super atom discovered
On the outside, the cluster made of 55 copper and aluminum atoms looks like a crystal, but chemically it has the properties of an atom. The heterometallic superatom which chemists of the Technical ... - How Magnetism Works: Electron Bonds Stronger Than Thought
Why are some metals magnetic? This question is a challenge not only for school children, but a well-founded scientific answer is also elusive. A paper by a team of scientists from Forschungszentrum... - Bio solar cell produces hydrogen
An international team of researchers has combined molecular building blocks from plants and microorganisms in a bio solar cell so that they could use light energy to directly produce hydrogen. This... - Hanwha Q-Cells Quantsol Awards 2018
Six young researchers received a Hanwha Q-Cells Quantsol Award for their self-developed Photovoltaics. This award is presented by the organizers of the international summer school Quantsol together... - Measuring the precise duration of the photoelectric response for the first time
Modern global networks of communication, solar power generation and distribution, and materials science are ultimately based on the photoelectric effect. More than a century after Albert Einstein e... - Raman Spectroscopy: Research on the tip
Microscopes let us peer into cells and the biochemical processes inside them. Processes taking place on much smaller scales, e.g. within single molecules, are the research focus of Dr. Marie Richar... - EUROoC network lays the foundations for joint European organ-on-a-chip research
The Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB is coordinating the establishment of a European research network to promote organ-on-a-chip technology. Organ-on-a-chip sy... - Gut bacteria's shocking secret: They produce electricity
While bacteria that produce electricity have been found in exotic environments like mines and the bottoms of lakes, scientists have missed a source closer to home: the human gut. UC Berkeley scient... - Surprising antibacterial activity and selectivity of hydrophilic phosphonium polymers
Artificial polymers, like antibiotic peptides, need both hydrophobic and hydrophilic domains in their molecular structure to exert antibacterial activity. Now, researchers from Canada have synthesi... - Terahertz Spectroscopy enters the Single-Molecule regime
The interaction of light with matter is the basis of spectroscopy, a set of techniques lying at the heart of physics and chemistry. From infrared light to X-rays, a broad sweep of wavelengths is us... - PhenoMeNal: an online portal for metabolomics
An international collaboration between EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and 13 other partners has made large-scale metabolomics analyses easier with the launch of PhenoMeNal. Thi... - The importance of curiosity-based research
In 1878, the Dutch chemist Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff gave a lecture titled 'Imagination in Science'. In it, van 't Hoff describes his research into the biographies of more than 200 famous scient...