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• The universal nature of the mercury test disproved
  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...
• What does graphene do in our lungs?
  Graphene has been hailed as the material of the future. As yet, however, little is known about whether and how graphene affects our health if it gets into the body. A team of researchers from Empa ...
• 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...
• X-rays at the end of the last tunnel
  During the afternoon and evening hours of Friday 5 October, the DESY accelerator team and the European XFEL photon commissioning team worked together to guide the first X-ray light through the last...
• 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...
• Carbon-Negative Claims for Bio-based Plastic
  Brazilian chemicals company Braskem, producers of I'm green™ - a bio-based polyethylene made from sugarcane - has had its negative carbon footprint credentials strengthened thanks to an independent...
• 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 ...
• Novel Use of NMR Sheds Light on Easy-To-Make Electropolymerized Catalysts
  In the world of catalytic reactions, polymers created through electropolymerization are attracting renewed attention. A group of Chinese researchers recently provided the first detailed characteriz...
• 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...
• EU project aims to increase knowledge on hormone disruptors
  Hormone-disrupting chemicals in our environment can affect early neurodevelopment in children, but little is known about the exact mechanisms for this interference. A new EU funded research project...
• Boost the efficiency of silicon solar cells
  The efficiency of a solar cell is one of its most important parameters. It indicates what percentage of the solar energy radiated into the cell is converted into electrical energy. The theoretical ...
• 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...
• Succsessful European Chemistry Partnering Summer Summit
  The first ECP Summer Summit ended with an international get-together at the headquarters of the consumer and industrial goods company Henkel. 250 participants from 16 nations came together to excha...
• 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...
• Call for Entries: Eppendorf Award 2019!
  From October 1, 2018, until January 15, 2019, young researchers not older than 35 years, with an advanced degree, who are working in Europe can apply for the Eppendorf Award for Young European Inve...