Cadmium is used in the production of fertilizers and batteries and currently pops up in a negative way as a water pollutant. Scientists of the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center and the LOEWE Center for ...
Ecology
Nov 20, 2020
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A team coordinated by Santiago V. Luis and Belén Altava, from the Department of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry at the Universitat Jaume I, has published a comprehensive article that includes the preparation of a series ...
Materials Science
Oct 14, 2020
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Delft University of Technology (TU Delft, The Netherlands) student start-up Loop has developed a living coffin made from mycelium. The Living Cocoon helps the body to compost more efficiently, removes toxic substances and ...
Environment
Sep 14, 2020
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Hexavalent chromium continues to contaminate water sources around the world, with one US company fined just this February for putting employees at risk. Hexavalent chromium is considered to be extremely toxic, especially ...
Materials Science
May 6, 2020
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The CENIEH has participated in a study in which researchers used spectroscopic techniques to investigate the cause of the red coloration of stalagmites in Goikoetxe Cave and its possible status as an indicator of paleoclimatic ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 20, 2020
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They make sauerkraut sour, turn milk into yogurt and cheese, and give rye bread its intensive flavour: bacteria that ferment nutrients instead of using oxygen to extract their energy. Acetobacterium woodii (short: A. woodii) ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 30, 2020
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Researchers at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) report a photo-acid generator (PAG) that generates Lewis acids with a quantum yield that is vastly superior to PAGs that generate Brønsted acids. The new PAG ...
Materials Science
Feb 7, 2020
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Today, various processes are used to convert organic waste into biogas. By combining two different processes, it is possible to obtain even more of valuable substances such as hydrogen and methane. The key is to make the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 14, 2020
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Researchers at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have developed a promising new class of active ingredients against resistant bacteria. In initial tests in cell cultures and insects, the substances were ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 12, 2019
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Standards of food safety and food quality have never been higher in Germany and throughout the European Union. This is especially true in the dairy industry. Yet despite such high standards, traces of impurities, pesticides ...
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 4, 2019
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