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Analytical Chemistry Oct 20, 2026

Fluorescent reaction maps reveal how catalyst activity changes with operating conditions

Catalysts spur chemical reactions used across industries, from producing fuels and medicines to manufacturing chemicals and treating pollutants. Improving their performance requires understanding where and how reactions happen ...

Optics & Photonics Oct 20, 2026

Steering electrons with extreme ultraviolet light—team achieves quantum coherent control

Light is one of the most powerful tools scientists have for probing matter. By interacting with electrons, light reveals how atoms, molecules and materials are structured and how they evolve in time. Highly energetic ultraviolet ...

Biotechnology Oct 20, 2026

'Raman barcodes' distinguish 20 SARS-CoV-2 variants by their RNA architecture

A research team led by distinguished professor Giuseppe Pezzotti at the Biomedical Engineering Center, Kansai Medical University (Japan), has demonstrated that differences in the molecular structures of viral RNA can be captured ...

General Physics Oct 20, 2026

Individual atomic collisions can now be detected in the lab, potentially opening up pathways to new physics

Tiny atoms and molecules are constantly bombarding each other all around us. While we regularly measure the large-scale effects of these interactions, measuring the effect of each individual collision is far more difficult. ...

Bio & Medicine Oct 20, 2026

Locusts get a sensory assist from nanomaterials—helping them detect more chemicals

Scientists have long explored the idea of using insects as our agents in the field in places where humans won't fit or survive. Imagine a cockroach in an earthquake zone, able to skitter into the rubble to map out exactly ...

Analytical Chemistry Oct 20, 2026

New analytical method reveals what happens inside tiny molecular frameworks

Tiny magnetic probes can be used to investigate the chemical forces at work inside the pores of molecular framework compounds, but until now, this had only been possible to a limited degree. A new method developed by a team ...

Cell & Microbiology Oct 20, 2026

Added receptor helps CAR T cells stay in bone marrow in cancer mouse models

By turning a patient's own immune cells into stronger cancer-fighting cells, CAR T-cell therapy has transformed how some blood cancers are treated. But it's been harder to extend this approach to solid tumors, including cancer ...

Molecular & Computational biology Oct 20, 2026

Keeping jumping genes in place: New role for protein complex discovered

As much as half of the human genome is composed of so-called "jumping genes." These DNA sequences can make copies of themselves that are inserted back into the genome at another location, playing a significant functional ...

Bio & Medicine Oct 19, 2026

Nanoscale tech tracks proteins inside living neurons to guide Alzheimer's and Parkinson's drug discovery

A technology developed at The University of Queensland allowing scientists to observe how disease-related proteins behave inside living neurons will be used to advance early drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases. ...

Biotechnology Oct 19, 2026

Researchers unlock new way to map molecular structure on surfaces

Scientists at NPL, with the University of Surrey, University of Oxford, the Francis Crick Institute and IONTOF GmbH, have developed a technique to distinguish and map molecules that share the same chemical formula and mass ...

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