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- Breakthrough in material science: analysing frozen water atom by atom
How to analyse ice down to its atomic scale? And how to analyse objects embedded in ice without melting it? An international team of material scientists mainly from the Max-Planck-Institut für Eise... - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 for the development of CRISPR Cas9 technology
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Prof. Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier, Scientific and Managing Director of the newly established Max Planck Unit... - Metallic ammonia? - Experiment shows for the first time how electrolytes become metallic
An international team for the first time observed the formation of a metallic conduction band in electrolytes using photoelectron spectroscopy. This allowed a deeper insight into the behaviour of e...
- Scientists film molecular rotation
Scientists have used precisely tuned pulses of laser light to film the ultrafast rotation of a molecule. The resulting "molecular movie" tracks one and a half revolutions of carbonyl sulphide (OCS)...
- 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... - On the path to an artificial cell
It is hoped that cells created in a test tube can answer some of the major questions in biology. What is the minimum that a cell needs in order to live? And how did life on Earth begin? Researchers...
- New lab for electrochemical interfaces at BESSY II
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) is establishing a joint lab together with the Max Planck Society (MPS) to study electrochemical phenomenon at solid/liquid interfaces. The Berlin Joint Lab for El... - Trailblazer in the field of glyco sciences: 2017 Stifterverband Science Prize
Sugar offers sweet prospects for the future - even in unexpected areas, such as medicine. Synthetic sugars, for example, are components of novel vaccines against infectious diseases such as multire...
- Using synthetic photosynthesis to combat climate change
In future, greenhouse gas carbon dioxide could be removed from the atmosphere by deploying a new biological method. A team headed by Tobias Erb, Leader of a Research Group at the Max Planck Institu... - Scientists model a crucial component of cell division
During the process of cell division, chromosomes must be distributed equally between the two emerging daughter cells. One copy of each chromosome is created and remains glued to the original until ... - Observe muscles at work with the help of new microscopes
Why can some people run so much faster than others? A tissue sample from the world record holder Usain Bolt could enable researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Dortmund to answer this questio... - Pinpoint the positions of individual molecules in living cells using fluorescence microscopy
Anyone who has ever taken a group photo will be familiar with the problem: If everyone is constantly running around, it's almost impossible to get a sharp photo. Cell biologists who want to visuali... - Strength and ductility for alloys
For the steel industry, there may be a way out of the dilemma that has existed since people began processing metal. Scientists from the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Düsseldorf (Germany... - Microbots that can remove lead from contaminated water
Working with colleagues in Barcelona and Singapore, Samuel Sanchez's group used graphene oxide to make their microscale motors, which are able to adsorb lead from industrial wastewater from a level... - Gallium as a new reversible adhesive?
Some adhesives may soon have a metallic sheen and be particularly easy to unstick. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart are suggesting gallium as just such a... - Fragments of proteins that already existed billions of years ago identified
Proteins and languages share many similarities - both, for instance, yield their meaning through a proper arrangement of basic building blocks. Prof. Andrei Lupas, Director at the Max Planck Instit...
- Organic framework serves as a catalyst for the photocatalytic conversion of water into hydrogen
Humanity's need for energy is ever-increasing. However, the traditional energy sources are finite. In contrast, water and sunlight are available in vast abundance. Scientists at the Max Planck Inst... - New microscopy methods revolutionize neuroscience
Anyone who wants to understand the brain must be able to see the brain's microscopically small switching units - the neurons - at work. Conventional light microscopes are not sufficient to do the j... - Area-wide transition to open access is possible
The Max Planck Digital Library has put forward a study on the transformation of the subscription-driven system for scientific publications to an Open Access model. For the first time, quantitative ... - Molecular structure of Spiegelmers resolved
Spiegelmers are a young group of promising pharmaceutical substances. They rely on the same building blocks as the nucleic acids RNA and DNA that fulfil various tasks in the organism - from storing... - 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...
- Superconductivity without cooling
An infrared laser pulse briefly modifies the structure of a high-temperature superconductor and thus removes its electrical resistance even at room temperatureSuperconductivity is a remarkable phen...
- first insights into the crystallization of tiny water droplets
Water that freezes to ice at some point is everyday physics, but even scientists gain new insights into this phenomenon all the time. For example, it is only now that researchers are able to invest... - What Holds Chromosomes Together - Scientists Elucidate the Structure of DNA-Packaging
To ensure that the genetic material is equally and accurately distributed to the two daughter cells during cell division, the DNA fibers must have an ordered structure and be closely packed. At the...
- The smallest ice crystals in the world
Ice crystals also have small beginnings - even smaller than previously believed. Already 475 water molecules can form a real crystalline structure; initial attempts can be discerned with 275 molecu...