The EU funded project Most-H2 is developing an innovative concept for hydrogen storage, from the laboratory to the tank. With a budget of approximately six million euros over 48 months, the project focuses on research and innovation to find the best storage solutions.

Scientists have created the first completely digitally manufactured plasma sensors for orbiting spacecraft. These plasma sensors, also known as retarding potential analyzers (RPAs), are used by satellites to determine the chemical composition and ion energy distribution of the atmosphere.

Astronomers at MIT and universities across Canada and the United States have detected a strange and persistent radio signal from a far-off galaxy that appears to be flashing with surprising regularity.

The Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore (Cares) and NTUitive, the innovation and enterprise company of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), are collaborating to advance the development of nanomaterials.

For the 27th time, the Hamburg-based life sciences company Eppendorf is awarding its prestigious research prize this year. The independent jury chaired by Prof. Reinhard Jahn selected Dr. Thi Hoang Duong Nguyen, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK as the winner of the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators 2022.

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a wearable chemical sensor this is spun from ultrafine gold threads and has the potential to measure different biomarkers. With this novel solution, the researchers aim to revolutionize health monitoring and reduce the financial burden of health care.

Researchers at the Riken Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research in Japan have created a robotic artificial intelligence (AI) system for autonomously determining the optimal conditions for growing replacement retina layers necessary for vision. The system was used to conduct a trial-and-error process which helped in improving cell culture recipes used in regenerative medicine.

Scientists at the UC Riverside and the University of Delaware have developed a process by which plants can produce food without the need of sunlight. Artificial photosynthesis is a process which is carried out in the dark and can help to increase food production across the globe. Interestingly, it also has the potential to grow food on Mars.

Global heating could become “catastrophic” for humanity if temperature rises are worse than many predict or cause cascades of events we have yet to consider, or indeed both. The world needs to start preparing for the possibility of a “climate endgame”, say experts.

New CU Boulder research finds that the presence of clouds — or lack thereof — caused by the smoke of wildfires thousands of miles away can either help protect or endanger Arctic sea ice.

Not only the production of green hydrogen, but also its safe and compact storage is a major challenge for the energy transition. Metal hydrides could be a good solution — they store large quantities of hydrogen in a small space, but release greenhouse gases during production. This is now set to change.

Reducing sugar consumption would have important benefits in the fight against climate change, as well as in the recovery from the health and economic crises associated with the coronavirus pandemic. This is the conclusion of a study by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

A new study in Cancer Causes and Control suggests a link between eating fish and skin cancer. However, Harvard Medical School warns that it’s too soon to make definitive conclusions about the relationship between fish in our diets and melanoma.

Research has revealed an association between the feeding of raw meat to pet dogs and the presence of bacteria resistant to critically important antibiotics.

As food costs continue to rise and a global food crisis looms on the horizon, it’s staggering to think that some 30-40 percent of America’s food supply ends up in landfills, mostly due to spoilage. At the same time, the World Health Organization estimates that foodborne illness from microbial contamination causes about 420,000 deaths per year worldwide.

The consumption of extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) — a product with widely known benefits for our health — increases the level of phenolic compounds in breast milk and can cross the placental barrier, reaching the descendant.

Vaginal microbiota reflects the regulation of the duration of gestation and the onset of labour. The microbiota may even have a direct effect on them, as indicated by a study conducted at the University of Helsinki and HUS Helsinki University Hospital.

Researchers from China explored a new treatment method for inflammatory bowel disease using ultrasmall Au25 — gold — nanoparticles. In previous studies, these nanoclusters have been found to effectively eliminate a variety of reactive oxygen species, a type of free radical molecule that can build up and damage DNA, RNA and proteins in a cell.

Scientists from ETH Zurich’s Macromolecular Engineering and Organic Chemistry Labs and entrepreneurs from Colorado-based Nanoly Bioscience worked together to develop a safe, versatile platform to increase the thermal stability of vaccines. Their aim? To vastly improve the distribution of viable vaccines and reduce the economic costs of the cold chain.

A study published by the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, Spain, has established that the two-metre safety distance may be reasonable for preventing Covid-19 infection. To this end, the analyzed the behaviour of saliva droplets.

A density determination can be carried out with a balance. A new poster by Mettler Toledo gives tips on how to set up the density measurement.

Today’s busy laboratories are under pressure to produce, and spilled materials are often an unwelcome show-stopper when weighing. Not anymore. With an new patented lattice weighing pan, laboratory workers keep working while maintaining the accuracy your process requires to enhance productivity and throughput.

Weighing is an important act in every laboratory — but it can become tedious and even uncomfortable. The design of the new, smaller XPR Analytical balance gives a deeper access to the weighing chamber.

Laboratory technicians often don't know which test weights and weight class they should choose to check the performance of their balances and scales. The free Mettler Toledo GWP Recommendation service specifies the correct test weights and weight class based on the degree of accuracy you need to satisfy your specific process tolerances.