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- A new lexicon in the age of microbiome research
Over the past 20 years, life science research has come to realise that all living beings - from the simplest animal and plant organisms to humans - live in close association with a large number of ...
- New process for creating nano materials - one step closer to mass production
A new process developed at Caltech makes it possible for the first time to manufacture large quantities of materials whose structure is designed at a nanometer scale - the size of DNA's double heli...
- New insights into the evolution of proteins
How do bacteria manage to adapt to synthetic environmental toxins and, for example, to even develop strategies for using a pesticide and chemical warfare agent as food within less than 70 years? Th... - Novel catalysis approach reduces carbon dioxide to methane
A growing number of scientists are looking for fast, cost-effective ways to convert carbon dioxide gas into valuable chemicals and fuels. Now, an international team of researchers has revealed a... - Copper oxide photocathodes: laser experiment reveals location of efficiency loss
Solar cells and photocathodes made of copper oxide might in theory attain high efficiencies for solar energy conversion. In practice, however, large losses occur. Now a team at the HZB has been abl...
- The world's smallest tic-tac-toe game board with DNA
It was just about a year ago that Caltech scientists in the laboratory of Lulu Qian, assistant professor of bioengineering, announced they had used a technique known as DNA origami to create tiles ...
- Test reveals antibiotic-resistant bacteria in a half hour
The discovery of antibiotics in the early part of the 20th century changed modern medicine. Simple infections that previously killed people became easy to treat. Antibiotics' ability to stave off i... - Novel contrast medium promises deep insights into cell processes
Imagine tracing the fate of specific cells in deep layers of tissue using minute amounts of an externally triggered contrast medium. The almost unimaginable is within reach today! A new contrast me... - Converting CO2 to multicarbon fuels
Chemists have figured out a new, more efficient way to create carbon-based fuels from carbon dioxide (CO2). In chemical reactions performed in the lab, a Caltech team has identified a new additive ... - Discovering of the first three-dimensional quantum liquid crystal
Physicists at the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech have discovered the first three-dimensional quantum liquid crystal-a new state of matter that may have applications in ultr...
- Living organisms can be persuaded to make silicon-carbon bonds
Molecules with silicon-carbon, or organosilicon, compounds are found in pharmaceuticals as well as in many other products, including agricultural chemicals, paints, semiconductors, and computer and... - First detection of a chiral molecule in interstellar space
Chiral molecules have two forms that are identical in structure, but are mirror images of one another. They are important on Earth because most biomolecules found in living organisms are chiral. No...
- Hydrogen from sunlight: new efficiency record for artificial photosynthesis
An international team has now succeeded in considerably increasing the efficiency for direct solar water splitting. They are using a tandem solar cell whose surfaces have been selectively modified....
- Even thinner solar cells through use of nanoparticles
Nanostructures could enable more light to be directed into the active layer of solar cells, increasing their efficiency. Prof. Martina Schmid (HZB und Freie Univ. Berlin) has now measured how irreg... - The "thousand-droplets test": Chemical reactions in artificial cell-scale systems show surprising diversity
In the future, an entire chemistry lab could be accommodated in a tiny little droplet. While simple reactions already work in these simplest models of an artificial cell now a group of scientists o...
- Oscillating Ions imitate optical Laser
For decades there has been interest in phonon lasers that emit quanta of vibrational energy - so called phonons - instead of light. In solids, because of the short wavelength, the implementation of...