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• Global warming increases the diversity of active soil bacteria
  Warmer soils harbour a greater diversity of active microbes, according to a new study from researchers at the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CeMESS) at the University of...
• A novel approach to synthesize unique anticancer molecules
  Nearly 30 years ago, scientists discovered a unique class of anticancer molecules in a family of bryozoans, a phylum of marine invertebrates found in tropical waters. The chemical structures of ...
• A new chapter for all-attosecond spectroscopy
  A team of researchers from the Max Born Institute in Berlin has for the first time demonstrated attosecond-pump attosecond-probe spectroscopy (APAPS) at a repetition rate of 1 kilohertz. This becam...
• Molecules for a new class of antibiotics that can overcome drug resistant bacteria
  About a decade ago, researchers in UC Santa Barbara chemistry professor Guillermo Bazan's lab began to observe a recurring challenge in their research: Some of the compounds they were developing to...
• Environmentally friendly alternative to PFAS-based coatings
  The Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP) in Greifswald, Germany has developed a new method for the production of ultra-hydrophobic organosilicon polymer coatings. These coating...
• Technique for producing variants of natural substances
  To synthesize potential drugs or natural products, you need natural substances in specific mirror-image variants and with a high degree of purity. For the first time, chemists at the University of ...
• Recognition for the discovery of nuclear fission
  Groundbreaking papers by Otto Hahn, Fritz Straßmann, Lise Meitner, and Robert Frisch unveiling the discovery of nuclear fission are honored by the prestigious American Chemical Society's Citation f...
• Microscopy: Overcoming the traditional resolution limit for the fast co-tracking of molecules
  Processes within our bodies are characterized by the interplay of various biomolecules such as proteins and DNA. These processes occur on a scale often within a range of just a few nanometers. Cons...
• GPT-3 for Chemical Research
  GPT-3, the language model behind the well-known AI system ChatGPT, can also be utilised in chemistry to solve various scientific tasks. This was demonstrated by a team of researchers at the École P...
• Release of so-called nanoparticulate oligomers from polyester textiles
  Textiles made of synthetic fibers release micro- and nanoplastics during washing. Empa researchers have now been able to show: Some of the supposed nanoplastics do not actually consist of plastic p...
• Nuclear fusion: European joint experiment achieves energy record
  At the Joint European Torus (JET) in the UK, a European research team has succeeded in generating 69 megajoules of energy from 0.2 milligrams of fuel. This is the largest amount of energy ever achi...
• First tetratomic supermolecules realised at nanokelvin temperatures
  A team of experimentalists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) and theorists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has succeeded for the first time in populating and stabilising ...
• Computer-engineered DNA to study cell identities
  A new computer program allows scientists to design synthetic DNA segments that indicate, in real time, the state of cells. Reported by the Gargiulo lab in "Nature Communications", it will be used t...
• Tracking down environmental toxins: PFAS on ski slopes
  Per- and polyfluoroalkyl compounds (PFAS) are extremely persistent organofluorine compounds that are also used in ski wax. Researcher Viktoria Müller from the University of Graz has found residues ...
• How to make bright quantum dots even brighter
  Researchers at Empa and ETH Zurich have developed new methods for making perovskite quantum dots faster and more efficient light emitters, thereby significantly improving their brightness. This is ...
• Electron bubbles modelled from X-ray laser data
  What happens when radiation hits water? This is a question that has an impact every time you get an X-ray at the doctor's office, given you are mostly made of water. A team of theoretical physicist...
• Brazing and 3D Printing Without Oxidation
  In the field of metal processing, dealing with oxidation can be quite challenging. One potential approach involves carrying out production in an environment free from oxygen. The LZH is investigati...
• Novel concept for detecting chiral molecules - Reflections without mirroring
  In contrast to conventional mirrors, light can be reflected on surfaces known as meta surfaces without changing its polarization. This has now been proven by physicists at Friedrich-Alexander-Unive...
• Green steel from toxic red mud
  The production of aluminium generates around 180 million tonnes of toxic red mud every year. Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, a centre for iron research, have now shown how...
• Wobbling particles in the sky
  Tiny particles such as ice crystals or ash particles tend to oscillate as they settle through the atmosphere. In their experiments, the scientists were able to track non-spherical particles of size...
• Ultrafast multi-dimensional spectroscopy of strongly correlated solids
  An international team of researchers from the European XFEL together with colleagues from the Max-Born Institute in Berlin, Universities of Berlin and Hamburg, The University of Tokyo, the Japanese...