Max Planck Society establishes new research facility for "Intelligent Systems" in Germany, unifying biology, computer and materials sciences

New Max Planck Institute: Intelligent Systems

UV and DNA
Base pairing increases the probability that UVA photons are absorbed by DNA and will cause damage in contrast to the effects of UVC

Merck Acquires Microbiology Business of Biotest AG
Biotest’s microbiology activities planned to be integrate into Merck Millipore’s Lab Solutions business unit

Photobioreactors in Natural Light
Model for natural sunlight photobioreactors shows conditions inside the bulk culture play an important role in productivity

Ultrafast Fingerprint Recognition
Non-destructive lifting and visualization technique reduces visualization time of fingerprints from 15 min to 30 s

POPs Center of Excellence
Thermo Fisher Scientific opens persistent organic pollutants (POPs) center of excellence for food safety and environmental analysis

Tying up Conductive Graphene Ribbons
Templated growth allowed US researchers to make almost zero-resistance nanoscopic ribbons of epitaxial graphene just 15–40 nanometers wide

Cheap Cats
An economic method based on a vacuum procedure can convert an off-the-shelf catalyst into a highly active photocatalyst without doping

Commemorating Hermann Staudinger
It is 130 years since the birth of Hermann Staudinger, the father of polymer chemistry

New Family of Carborane-Functionalized Polymers
Inclusion of boron clusters into the side chains of polymers rather than the backbone gives a photoluminescent anion sensor