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Researchers at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have successfully created electricity-generating solar-cells with chemicals found the shells of shrimps and other crustaceans for the first tim... - Combination of MRI and MALDI mass spectrometry improves diagnostics
Scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technische Universität München have succeeded in a breakthrough for the further development of contrast agents and consequently improved diagno... - Atmospheric abundance of new ozone-destroying gases is growing rapidly
Study lead author Dr Ryan Hossaini, from the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, said: "'very short-lived substances' (VSLS) can have both natural and industrial sources. In... - Magnitude of plastic waste going into the ocean
A plastic grocery bag cartwheels down the beach until a gust of wind spins it into the ocean. In 192 coastal countries, this scenario plays out over and over again as discarded beverage bottles, fo... - Mini synthetic organism instead of test animals
In medical research, animal-based experiments have thus far been a necessary evil. Fraunhofer researchers have developed a highly promising alternative, however: They are developing a mini-organism... - New approach for characterization of cells could revolutionize diagnosis of diseases
Cells, like any other material, have mechanical properties that can serve for their characterization. For example, cancer cells are characteristically more deformable than healthy cells. These mech... - Finding valuable materials in metallurgical dumps
Since metallic raw materials are scarce in Germany, it is reliant on imports. Yet some of these valuable materials are lying around unnoticed in dumps. Fraunhofer researchers are now compiling a Ge... - Structure and function of highly active bacterial enzyme elucidated
A team of microbiologists from the TU Darmstadt and biochemists from the University of Freiburg, Germany, have jointly succeeded in determining the high-resolution crystal structure of a sulfite-re... - Real-Time observation of nonclassical protein crystallization kinetics
A major hurdle in structural biology and pharmacology is growing crystals to determine the structure of the biomolecules and pharmaceuticals under study. Researchers at the University of Tübingen, ... - Artificial catalysts imitate natural photo-synthesis
Scientists at the Helmholtz Center for Materials and Energy (HZB) in collaboration with the School of Chemistry and ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science at Monash University, Austr... - Insight into the aggregation of xenon atoms
An international team of physicists has succeeded in mapping the condensation of individual atoms, or rather their transition from a gaseous state to another state, using a new method. Led by the S... - Insights into structural transformations explain difference of crystals behaviour during mechanical tension
Crystals are not as stationary as you might think. A crystal of an organometallic compound containing palladium, for example, downright jumps from a hotplate once it reaches certain temperature. An... - New catalyst process uses light and not metal for rapid polymerization
A team of chemistry and materials science experts from University of California, Santa Barbara and The Dow Chemical Company has created a novel way to overcome one of the major hurdles preventing t... - Making synthetic materials more impervious
Synthetic materials are convenient in many respects, but they have one disadvantage: they are permeable to gases. In order to make plastic more impervious, Ruhr-Universität engineers apply wafer-th... - Towards a better understanding of chemical reactions at interfaces
A team of German-American researchers has developed a new method enabling chemical processes at interfaces to be analyzed more precisely than has so far been possible. Standing Wave Ambient Pressur... - Highly specific nanoparticles deliver active ingredients directly to targeted tissue
Jena scientists have been successful in producing highly specific nanoparticles. Depending on the bound dye the particles are guided to the liver or to the kidney and deliver their payload of acti...
- The COLTRIMS Reaction Microscope provides new results for the structure of helium molecules
Frankfurt physicists have once again contributed to resolving a disputed matter of theoretical physics. Science has long since known that, contrary to the old school of thought, helium forms molecu... - New 'high-entropy' alloy is as light as aluminum, as strong as titanium alloys
Researchers from North Carolina State University and Qatar University have developed a new "high-entropy" metal alloy that has a higher strength-to-weight ratio than any other existing metal materi... - Computer simulations sharpen insights into molecule structure
The resolution of scanning tunnelling microscopes can be improved dramatically by attaching small molecules or atoms to their tip. The resulting images were the first to show the geometric structur... - New form of ice could help explore exciting avenues for energy production and storage
The discovery of a new form of ice could lead to an improved understanding of our planet's geology, potentially helping to unlock new solutions in the production, transportation and storage of ener... - Leibniz Prize 2015 announced for discovery of a new family of antibiotics
Nature harbours some of the most effective treatments for diseases - however, identifying and analysing these substances is a major scientific challenge. Prof. Dr. Christian Hertweck is one of the ... - Researchers discover mechanism of rapid formation of extremely low volatile organic compounds
Leipzig. It is already known since 1875 that hydrocarbons can be oxidized by oxygen. Up to now, this so-called "autoxidation process" has been investigated solely in the condensed phase. An interna... - Low-Cost Motility Tracking System for Time-Lapse Microscopy Applications and Cell Visualisation
Expensive tests for measuring everything from sperm motility to cancer diagnosis have just been made hundreds of thousands of pounds cheaper by a PhD student from Brunel University London who hacke... - Characterization of X-ray flashes opens new perspectives in X-ray science
Ultra-short and extremely strong X-ray flashes, as produced by free-electron lasers, are opening the door to a hitherto unknown world. Scientists are using these flashes to take "snapshots" of the ... - New theory on how glass transitions from a liquid to a solid
How does glass transition from a liquid to its familiar solid state? How does this common material transport heat and sound? And what microscopic changes occur when a glass gains rigidity as it coo...