Professor Katja Becker, Justus Liebig University Gießen, elected President of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

First Female DFG President

New President of the Belgian-Walloon Royal Society of Chemistry
Laurent Provins, UCB Pharma, Belgium, will be President of the Société Royale de Chimie (SRC)

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Liquid Marble-Shaped Photosensor
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Imaging Hexagonal Boron Nitride with Stimulated Raman Scattering
Enhanced imaging and thickness measurements

Fluorescent Peptides Help to Detect Biomolecular Interactions
Ratiometric fluorescence signal from a peptide can be used to report on its interaction with calmodulin

Daguerreotypes – The Science of Early Photography
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Separating Illicit Drugs with MagLev
Magneto-Archimedes levitation (MagLev) could complement or even replace other portable drug identification techniques

The Chemistry of Superheavy Elements
C. E. Düllmann, GSI Darmstadt, gives insight into the chemistry of short-lived, superheavy atoms

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