Cockroach brains could be rich stores of new antibiotics according to scientists from The University of Nottingham

Antibiotics From Cockroaches

Competition For Start-Ups
Competition for young start-ups offers a total amount of 76.000 EUR, valuable contacts, professional feedback, and industry know-how

Better Tracers through Chelation
Orginally isolated from frogs, bombesin analouges are now proving useful for tracing cancers through chelation to Tc

Calls For EU's Framework Programme
2011 calls for the European Union's 7th Framework Programme: 6.4 billion EUR — Europe's biggest ever investment in research and innovation

Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award
Award for analytical science presented to Luisa Torsi, University of Bari, Italy

Wet Wet Wet
Atomic-scale resolution of water on mica reveals new details about wetting processes

Catalytic Models
Surface-science based models for heterogeneous catalysis illuminated with examples

Uncultured Bacteria
Electrophoreses removes the need to culture bacteria samples before identification

Philippe Tanguy Awarded
Philippe Tanguy, vice president of scientific development at international oil and gas company Total, awarded IChemE Honorary Fellowship

Silver Bales
Ordinary cotton coated with silver and electrified creates water filter that has no moving parts and requires very little power