A new study by University of Mannheim researchers Gunther Glenk, Philip Holler, and Stefan Reichelstein examines how the assessment of carbon emissions affects the incentives for the production of electrolytic hydrogen. Its key finding: even stringent accounting rules generally provide sufficient in...

A start-up company that helped design how astronauts grow and recycle food in space is working with Heriot-Watt University to tackle the problem of dairy waste here on Earth. Take Root Bio worked with the International Centre for Brewing and Distilling (ICBD) to successfully turn salty whey, a high-...

Smoltek Nanotech Holding AB announces that its subsidiary Smoltek Hydrogen and Heraeus Precious Metals advance their strategic collaboration to develop next-generation, ultra-low iridium Porous Transport Electrodes (PTEs) for Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) water electrolysis. As a major milestone in...

Snails can adjust the chemical composition of their mucus to make it liquid, solid or sticky as needed. Snails are particularly active after a rain shower. Even on the Max Planck Campus in Potsdam-Golm, common banded snails ( Cepaea nemoralis ) leave behind their shiny trails of mucus. Researchers f...

The specialty chemicals company LANXESS improved sales and earnings in the second quarter of 2026 compared with the prior year—despite a continued weak economic environment and ongoing geopolitical uncertainties. The Group generated sales of EUR 1.561 billion, representing a 6.5 percent increase on ...

Merck announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2026. The company delivered robust performance and upgraded its full-year guidance. Group net sales increased to € 5.4 billion (Q2 2025: € 5.3 billion), representing organic growth of 4.1% compared with the year-earlier quarter. EBITDA ...

The HOYER Group reaches another milestone in its 80-year company history: For the first time since the company was founded, third-generation family shareholders were appointed to the Advisory Board in July 2026, and are now taking up their positions. It completes the second transfer between generati...

Researchers at the University of Bayreuth, together with colleagues from Freie Universität Berlin and the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, have developed a synthetic fibre system inspired by the cellular cytoskeleton that protects itself through controlled bundling. The findings open u...

With an annual production of around one million metric tons, formic acid is one of the most important basic chemicals and is used, among other things, as an additive in the animal feed industry. It is also increasingly attracting attention as an H2 carrier. To date, its production has relied on foss...

As regulators worldwide move to restrict PFAS, the synthetic "forever chemicals" long used in waterproof textiles, Niber Technologies is advancing a PFAS-free electrospun nanofiber membrane platform built to meet that shift without compromising performance. A Global Shift Away from PFAS PFAS do not ...

Award recognises holistic approach to sustainability – TechnoCompound ranks among the top 3 per cent in its sector. On its first certification, TechnoCompound was immediately awarded the Silver medal by EcoVadis and only narrowly missed out on the Gold award. In the EcoVadis overall ranking of aroun...

Fusion power plants of the future will not only require extremely hot plasmas and strong magnetic fields but also a fuel cycle in which the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium can be recovered, separated, and reused. Together with partners, a team from HZDR has now demonstrated a highly efficien...

Mehdi Hireche has been appointed Managing Director of Air Liquide Deutschland GmbH, effective July 1, 2026. In this role, he will be responsible for Air Liquide’s business development and sustainable growth in Germany. He succeeds Sebastian Jureczek and will be based in Düsseldorf. Mehdi Hireche beg...

The first electrolytic hydrogen produced in Lingen, Lower Saxony, has reached Marl in the northern Ruhr region. This means that all components of the integrated hydrogen project GET H2 Nukleus are now successfully working together as a network. As part of the ongoing commissioning process for two 10...

The interaction between X-rays and matter can be actively controlled: an international research team led by the University of Hamburg and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has succeeded in producing bright X-ray images that come with significantly less damage. In Nature Communications, the resear...

For female consumers, fruit juice is synonymous with naturalness and quality. Products sold as fruit juice must not contain any added sugar—only the sugar that occurs naturally in the fruit. However, adulteration with foreign sugars is difficult to detect analytically because added syrups can mimic ...

Univar Solutions LLC (“Univar Solutions” or “the Company”), a leading global solutions provider to users of specialty ingredients and chemicals, today announced it has acquired H.M. Royal, a highly respected 101-year-old specialty distributor of rubber, plastics, and adhesive additives. The addition...

Every year, billions of products are sealed in film packaging. This packaging must be reliably leakproof, especially in regulated sectors such as in the medical and food industry. In the OCTInline project, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS have develop...

The energy system of the future will require sustainable catalysts that, for example, enable the efficient production of green hydrogen. Materials consisting of mixtures of five chemical elements show great promise for enabling ideal catalysts in the future. Researchers at the DFG Collaborative Rese...

Eppendorf has signed an agreement for a new production site in Penang, Malaysia, marking the start of its planned greenfield manufacturing facility in Bandar Cassia Technology Park. The company is investing EUR 40 million in the site, with production of initial products expected to begin in 2028. “T...