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Mushrooms are existing in a breathtaking variety of shapes, colors and sizes. Especially in autumn, mushroom hunters are going into the forests to find the tastiest of them, prepare them in multiple ways and eat them with relish. However, it is well known that there are also poisonous mushrooms among them, and it is live saving to distinguish between them.

Physics students doing their masters course fabricate microscopically tiny specimens in a practical training session in a cleanroom.

The lightest of all'elements, hydrogen, is in great demand due to its promising role as a sustainable resource in the energy transition. A team from Leipzig University and TU Dresden, as part of the Hydrogen Isotopes 1,2,3H Research Training Group, has made an important breakthrough in the efficient and cost-effective provision of isotopes.

When water is split electrolytically, the result is typically hydrogen - and useless oxygen. Instead of oxygen, you can also produce a useful product.

The Technische Universität Ilmenau is researching high-performance components and their properties in a large-scale federal project to make the production of hydrogen from sunlight more stable, efficient and cost-effective.

Heidelberg chemists characterise new basic structure in the field of aromaticity The term aromaticity is a basic, long-standing concept in chemistry that is well established for ring-shaped carbon compounds.

Research team mimics natural molecular structures / New possibility for vaccine development Meningococci ( Neisseria meningitidis ) are disease-causing bacteria that cause life-threatening meningitis, or blood poisoning (septicaemia).

25 April is DNA Day.

Understanding the regulatory mechanism paves the way to enhance the effectiveness of anti-inflammatory therapies and to develop strategies to counteract the negative effects of stressand age-related cortisol excess.

Injuries in the central nervous system heal poorly because cavities scar. Researchers hope to remedy this problem by filling the cavities in such a way that stem cells feel comfortable in them.

Solids can exist in two structurally very different phases: the crystal phase and the glass phase. While the short-range order of the atoms in both phases is generally very similar, only the atoms of the crystal have a long-range order. The similarity of the short-range order is attributed to the similarity of the chemical bonding between the atoms in both phases.