Extreme networking
The largest living organism in the world is not a blue whale, an elephant or a sequoia tree, but a fungus. With its underground mycelium, a single honey fungus in Oregon’s Malheur National Forest covers...
microRNA – a small RNA with a big impact
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 Since their discovery in 1993, microRNAs have been the subject of intensive research due to their fundamental role in gene regulation and are considered promising...
Siloxanes
New fibres urgently wanted! You can finally enjoy swimming, hiking and go camping without a guilty conscience – at a laboratory of the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa),...
AI in the laboratory – game changer or risk?
Application examples, future prospects and hurdles Every now and then, a technological advancement changes the entire world in the long term. The invention of plastics at the start of the 20th century...
Record-breaking pincer grip
An extraordinary insect is inspiring science with its superpowers: the seal louse is less than half the size of a grain of rice, but can easily hold 18,000 times its body weight. As an underwater parasite,...
