Change of track: reversal of the path of electrons through nature's solar cells

Photosynthetic organisms have a similar switching point. Once the sunlight is absorbed, the energy is quickly transferred to a protein ...

Tracking The Fundamentals of Thermodynamic

Since the end of the 19th century, physicists have known that the transfer of energy from one body to another is associated with entrop...

Scientists identify harmful bacteria based on DNA at very low cost

A new bacterial identification method, called ON-rep-seq, examines the strain-specific selective fragments of the bacterial genome, ena...

Neutrons optimize highly efficient catalyst for a more environmentally friendly approach to biofuel synthesis

Researchers at the University of Manchester have developed a catalyst that converts biomass into fuel with remarkably high efficiency a...

New study looks at biological enzymes as a source of hydrogen fuel

Davis has conducted research from the University of Illinois and the University of California that has brought chemists one step closer...

The Single-Molecule Detection of Cancer Markers Brings The Liquid Biopsy Closer To The Cinic

A quick, inexpensive, yet sensitive technique for finding cancer markers brings researchers closer to a "liquid biopsy" - a t...

Deadly "Superbugs" Destroyed By Molecular Drills

Molecular drills have been given the ability to control and destroy deadly bacteria that have developed resistance to almost all antibi...