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Molecular structure of Amyloid beta. Copyright raimund14-fotolia.com 27.04.2015One of the pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease is the formation of amyloid fibres by tau proteins Results have shown that water mobility is increased on the surface of these ta…

10.12.2014The discovery of a new form of ice could lead to an improved understanding of our planet’s geology, potentially helping to unlock new solutions in the production, transportation and storage of energy. Ice XVI, the least dense of all known forms of ice, has a highly symmetric cage-like st…

The Cheshire cat. © darren whittingham, fotolia.com 29.07.2014First experimental observation of a 'Quantum Cheshire Cat‘ could help to perform high precision measurements of quantum systems. Researchers from the Vienna University of Technology have performed the fi…

19.05.2014Results from neutron spin-echo analysis at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) and the National Center of Neutron Research (NCNR) in the United States are an important advance towards enabling subcutaneous injections of concentrated biopharmaceuticals used to treat cancer and autoimmune dis…

It does not always take a huge accelerator to do particle physics.First results from a low-energy, table-top alternative experiment broaden the scope of validity of Newton's gravitational theory and define more narrowly - by more than a hundred thousand times - the potential properties of the forc…

21.02.2013Scientists from Imperial College London, working at the Institut Laue-Langevin, have presented a new way of positioning nanoparticles in plastics, with important applications in the production of coatings and photovoltaic material that harvest energy from the sun.  The study, presented i…