Support website to coordinate relief efforts by the scientific community in response to the devastating earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan

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First Science Slam in Karlsruhe
Falko Brinkmann organized the first Science Slam in Karlsruhe; here he talks about his inspiration and the event

Wonderlab Comic — Fire Alarm
When the fire alarm rings in the Wonderlab – who is the first to safety and who is the cause?

Interview with Fridolin E. Coli
Fridolin E. Coli, gram-negative rod-shaped bacterium, talks about his more than one hundred years of experience in research

Good News for Hot Dog Fans
Levels of carcinogenic heterocyclic amines in some meat products are very low according to a US study; good news for hot dog fans

Harnessing Sunflowers for Drug Production
Sunflower proteins and their processing machinery hijacked to make protein rings – implications for plant-based drug production

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

2010 Trends in Food Chemistry
An overview of the latest trend report published annually in Nachrichten aus der Chemie, the GDCh magazine

Sweet Tasting Cells
Understanding how taste cells respond to sugar could eventually lead to ways to treat overconsumption and perhaps obesity

Sweet Solution to Mobile Power
You might one day power your mp3 player or smart phone by simply pouring in a sugary drink, thanks to biofuel cells research