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Wavelength-independent and photoinitiator-free laser 3D nanolithography

Laser direct writing (LDW) employing multi-photon 3D polymerisation is a scientific and industrial lithography tool used in various fields such as micro-optics, medicine, metamaterials, programmable materials, etc., due to the…

Scientists decode black widow spider venom

The α-latrotoxin, which is dangerous for humans, causes severe muscle contractions and spasms. Researchers from the University of Münster showed in detail how the molecule is structured and how it…

New insights into ammonia decomposition

An international research team has gained new insights into the mode of operation of an iron catalyst that can be used to split ammonia into nitrogen and hydrogen. Hydrogen is…

Highly sensitive quantum sensors for medicine

First successful demonstration of a dual-media NV diamond laser system. Measuring tiny magnetic fields, such as those generated by brain waves, enables many new novel opportunities for medical diagnostics and…

Hydrogenate nitrogen-containing aromatic compounds

An efficient way to hydrogenate nitrogen-containing aromatic compounds has been developed. Successful reduction of the chemical manufacturing industry’s environmental impact relies on finding a greener way to make the chemical…

Stopping off-the-wall behavior in fusion reactors

Boron could help the tungsten wall inside a tokamak keep its atoms to itself. Fusion researchers are increasingly turning to the element tungsten when looking for an ideal material for components…

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Physics and Astronomy

Stopping off-the-wall behavior in fusion reactors

Boron could help the tungsten wall inside a tokamak keep its atoms to itself. Fusion researchers are increasingly turning to the element tungsten when looking for an ideal material for components…

NASA: new insights into how Mars became uninhabitable

NASA’s Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate went from potentially suitable for life – with evidence for widespread…

Winds of change

James Webb Space Telescope reveals elusive details in young star systems. Astronomers have discovered new details of gas flows that sculpt planet-forming disks and shape them over time, offering a…

Life Sciences and Chemistry

What we can learn from hungry yeast cells

EMBL Heidelberg and University of Virginia scientists have discovered a curious way in which cells adapt to starvation – a mechanism with potential cancer implications. What can stressed yeast teach…

How diabetes risk genes make cells less resilient to stress

Some genetic factors predisposing people to diabetes might change the way pancreatic cells respond to molecular stress, researchers at The Jackson Laboratory discovered. The cells in your pancreas, like people,…

The secret strength of our cell guards

A team from UNIGE and EPFL has demonstrated how Hsp70 chaperone proteins help proteins move within cells. Proteins control most of the body’s functions, and their malfunction can have severe…

Materials Sciences

Targeting failure with new polymer technology to enhance sustainability

Sustainability is a complex problem with many different players and influenced by policies, society, and technical perspective. We are reminded every day in the media of the unnecessary amount of…

Breakthrough in soft robotics

First toroidal micro-robot to swim autonomously in viscous liquids. Researchers from Tampere University in Finland and Anhui Jianzhu University in China have made a significant breakthrough in soft robotics. Their…

Wavelength-independent and photoinitiator-free laser 3D nanolithography

Laser direct writing (LDW) employing multi-photon 3D polymerisation is a scientific and industrial lithography tool used in various fields such as micro-optics, medicine, metamaterials, programmable materials, etc., due to the…

Information Technology

Gut microbiome and tumor cachexia: New European research network

EU project “MiCCrobioTAckle” studies the gut microbiome in cancer and promotes young scientists for microbiota medicine. By Friederike Gawlik The new EU-funded international research network “MiCCrobioTAckle” will investigate the role…

Quantum communication: using microwaves to efficiently control diamond qubits

Major breakthrough for the development of diamond-based quantum computers. Quantum computers and quantum communication are pioneering technologies for data processing and transmission that is much faster and more secure than…

Logic with light

Introducing diffraction casting, optical-based parallel computing. Increasingly complex applications such as artificial intelligence require ever more powerful and power-hungry computers to run. Optical computing is a proposed solution to increase…