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- Manipulating single atoms with an electron beam
All matter is composed of atoms, which are too small to see without powerful modern instruments including electron microscopes. The same electrons that form images of atomic structures can also be ... - Stephen Hawking's final theory on the origin of the universe has been published
Professor Hertog, whose work has been supported by the EU's European Research Council, first announced the new theory at a conference in Cambridge in July of last year, organised on the occasion of... - European funding for improved efficiency of single particle imaging experiments
With Single Particle Imaging (SPI) techniques scientists use intense X-ray light sources to produce 3D visualizations of the atomic structure and dynamics of biological molecules such as viruses an... - Simple Organic Molecules form complex materials through self-organization
Floor parquetings are typically found in living rooms. But microstructured parquetings, or rather tessellations, may occur in materials as well. Materials with tessellations can, for example, be ch... - Observing brain cells at work
Tomas Cizmar's research work concerns new methods of controlling light propagation in optical fibres. The aim of his research work is to produce miniaturized fibre-optic probes which would enable h...
- Origami nanostructures to track individual molecules
One of chemistry's greatest challenges is investigating reaction mechanisms at the level of single molecules. This can be performed using Raman spectroscopy - provided that molecules and metallic n... - New approach to determining the structure of molecules in biological cells
This is about nothing less than the complex mechanisms of life: In their project entitled "Spectroscopy in cells" - or SPICE for short - the physical chemist Professor Malte Drescher and his workin... - Tracking down the origins of gold
The European Research Council has awarded HITS astrophysicist Andreas Bauswein an ERC Starting Grant worth approximately 1.5 million euros. Using computer simulations, the aim of the project is to ... - New model for bimolecular reactions in nanoreactors
Theoretical physicists have devised a mathematical model of two different molecules reacting within so called nanoreactors that act as catalysts. They gained surprising new insights as to what fact... - Breaking Newton's Law
In the quantum world, our intuition for moving objects is strongly challenged and may sometimes even completely fail. Experimental physicists of the University of Innsbruck in collaboration with th...
- Atomic structures of proteins elucidated
The more we know about the agents that cause disease, the more specifically we will be able to combat them. These are the words of Prof. Adam Lange of the Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakolo... - New materials for the construction of metal organic two-dimensional quasicrystals
Unlike classical crystals, quasicrystals do not comprise periodic units, even though they do have a superordinate structure. The formation of the fascinating mosaics that they produce is barely und...
- A probably new way to make X-rays
The most widely used technology for producing X-rays - used in everything from medical and dental imaging, to testing for cracks in industrial materials - has remained essentially the same for more... - Research project to convert CO2 into fuels using sunlight and diamond materials
A great new idea is now being investigated by scientists of Germany, France, England, and Sweden, among them HZB's Prof. Emad Aziz. They propose exploring diamond materials for photocatalytic conve... - Mid-IR frequency combs enable high resolution spectroscopy for sensitive gas sensing
A frequency comb source is a light source with a spectrum containing thousands of laser lines. The development of these sources has been revolutionary for fundamental science. It has allowed the co... - 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...
- 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 ... - First 3D Model of a Synapse
A glance into a new world for neuroscience: research team from Göttingen led by Prof. Dr. Silvio O. Rizzoli present the first scientifically accurate 3D model of a synapse. This effort has been mad... - New programs allow for more accurate ways to interpret X-ray crystallography data
Computational biologists from the Max F. Perutz Laboratories of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna show that averaging is not always a good thing when it comes to analyzi...
- Innovative nano-nensors for multiple proteins developed
Chemists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have developed a new method for parallel protein analysis that is, in principle, capable of identifying hundreds or even thousands of different...
- Research on the Aerosol Composition in the Upper Atmosphere
Professor Dr. Stephan Borrmann receives a grant of EUR 2.75 million from the European Research Council (ERC) for research into the chemical composition of aerosols and clouds in the upper atmospher...