Evonik increases the prices for DEGALAN

Middle East crisis triggers historic raw material shortages and drastic price surges

Business survey on plastic packaging and plastic films

hubergroup is raising prices in Europe due to the Middle East conflict

Drastic cost increases for resins, solvents and pigments are forcing printing ink manufacturers to take action

Rising operating costs necessitate price adjustments at Qemetica Salz

Challenges of rising energy, labor and logistics costs addressed with sustainable solutions

E-Cars Will Soon be Cheaper than Combustion Engines

Batteries and fuel cells will dominate in the future – “e-fuels” will only play a very minor role

ICIS global Petrochemical Index (IPEX) plunges to November 2003 level

BASF to increase prices for construction chemicals across Europe

Oxea Announces Price Increase for Carboxylic Acids in Europe

People willing to pay more for new biofuels

BASF to increase prices for butanediol and derivatives

World Bank Raises 2017 Oil Price Forecast

OPEC agreement to limit production seen sending prices higher

Oxea Announces Price Increases for n-Propanol and n-Propyl Acetate

Oxea Announces Price Increases for 1,3-Butylene Glycol

LANXESS: Price increase for several synthetic elastomers

Arkema announces a price increase of Specialty Polyolefins

WACKER POLYMERS to Raise Prices For Dispersions

Sartomer Europe increases prices of monomers and oligomers

BASF increases Prices for Ethanolamines in Europe

Arkema announces a price increase on its Orevac® range

Altuglas International increase prices for its acrylic sheet and blocks

Immediate price increase of 15% on the whole range of Forane HFC grades in Europe

Festo is cutting approximately 1,300 jobs in Germany

Family-owned company responds to intensifying competition in Asia and geopolitical crises with a global transformation program

Water splitting catalyst creates hydrogen at low temperatures

Birmingham researchers’ novel way of producing hydrogen fuel has a lower cost than existing methods

German plastics recycling on the brink of collapse

Six proposals to save the industry

Short circuits in solid-state batteries: the mechanism finally proven

Using cryo-electron microscopy under vacuum, a Max Planck team has resolved a decade-long debate on dendrite-induced cracking

Green hydrogen from sunlight and water - without electrolyzers and without electricity

Photreon, a spin-off from KIT, is developing a photoreactor panel that enables direct solar hydrogen production

Focused Energy secures US$240 million: the world’s first laser fusion power plant is set to be built in Germany

Record funding round positions the start-up at the forefront of the international fusion industry

Atomic reshuffle paves way for record-breaking catalysts for hydrogen production

"This opens a new strategy for designing adaptive catalysts for a wide range of applications"

Reversible glue technology goes electric

Water-based adhesive joins electronic components and releases them on demand

Sunfire to Build Electrolysis Test Facility at BASF Site in Schwarzheide

Test facility supports the industrial-scale deployment of green hydrogen

Metso introduces an advanced lithium carbonate process to support battery materials production

At the core of the process is soda pressure leaching, which selectively extracts lithium with fewer soluble impurities in one pass

Cooling without a compressor or refrigerant—quieter, more efficient, and more sustainable than ever before

Fraunhofer Spin-off Raises €2.2 Million Seed Funding to Redefine Refrigeration Technology

Frequency combs: the key to the next generation of spectroscopy

A review article demonstrates how dual-comb interferometers can determine resolution solely through temporal coherence.

Miltenyi Biotec expands Cologne production site for clinical reagents

Milestone for biotechnology made in Germany: More capacity for cell and gene therapies

Could cultured chocolate unlock the next food revolution?

Chocolate from a bioreactor: UC Davis and food-tech start-up California Cultured aim to reinvent cocoa

Detecting heavy metals in soil and water: New method for on-site analysis

Simple technology replaces expensive laboratory procedures

Cytospire Therapeutics announces oversubscribed £61 million Series A financing

London-based start-up aims to activate gamma-delta T cells in both the blood and the tumour to fight cancer

New research finds that almost all plant-based meat alternatives contain mycotoxins

Grains, legumes and seeds used in vegan products are particularly prone to mould exposure during cultivation and storage

Common structural analysis of interfacial water is inadequate, according to a new study

Water molecules at the air-water interface characterised layer by layer for the first time

Europe is pooling billions to turn biotech companies into global champions

EQT will manage the €5 billion fund, investing in biotech, AI and other key technologies

Ultra-processed foods damage your focus even if you eat healthy

One extra bag of chips a day reduces your ability to focus and raise dementia risk factors regardless of diet quality

The olive as a laboratory

A new analytical approach predicts the quality of olive oil before it is extracted

Egg consumption is associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

Eating one egg per day for at least five days a week reduces risk of Alzheimer’s by up to 27%

Future Foods Lab: Nomad Foods advances two startups to concept development

Swedish clean-label pizza brand For Real! Foods and Spanish functional snack maker Mia Puccia enter the next innovation phase

For the first time, researchers are peering inside record-breaking superconductors

Atomic-level insights into lanthanum superhydrides are expected to enable more energy-efficient technologies in the long term

Dietary changes in older people can improve ‘biological age’

An omnivorous diet high in carbohydrates is the most reliable way to lower biological age

Less hunger, more environmental problems?

Study investigates tradeoffs between human health and sustainability

New technology detects bacteria on surfaces in five minutes using a smartphone

UMass spun off HertZ Innovation launches smartphone-based bacterial test

New antibiotics discovered to treat multi-resistant germs

A well-known soil bacterium produces a previously unknown antibiotic that was discovered through improved fractionation methods

Not all ultra-processed foods are unhealthy

Healthy ultra-processed foods should be exempt from food policy restrictions

Holography meets spectroscopy: Ultrafast microscopy method for optical processes

Research team from Heidelberg and Milan develops novel microscopy technique to study energy materials

It may not just be what’s in ultra-processed foods, but how they’re made

New observational study suggests processing itself could partly explain links to diabetes, heart disease, and early death

Healthier plant-based diet associated with lower risk of Alzheimer’s, other dementias

Lower risk found even among those who adopted the diet at an older age

Why doesn't coffee taste like caffeine?

Compounds created by the Maillard reaction during coffee bean roasting tame caffeine’s bitterness

Coffee doesn’t just wake you up — it may help protect your body from aging

New research identifies a key biological pathway that could explain how coffee helps protect against aging and chronic disease.

Reduce, remove and modify: Research team "cuts" wheat chromosomes to size

Study paves the way for faster breeding

Researchers solve a 50-year-old mystery: how acid removes water from proteins

Cryo-electron microscopy reveals for the first time which amino acids bind water and which ones release it when acidified

First European biotech with CAR-T and LNP technology under one roof

T-CURX integrates Pantherna Therapeutics, bringing together 16 patent families and 35 employee

Red meat: Evolution’s double-edged sword

Why the food that made us human may be making us sick

New biomarkers for detecting cancer

Able to distinguish between tumour stages

Fewer animal experiments thanks to virtual mouse

AI-supported in silico mouse model for biomedical research

What gives stevia its sweetness?

Scientists uncover the genetic secret: The study finds major implications for the food and beverage industry

Haga Bioscience raises $2.3m in oversubscribed seed round to bridge spatial biomarker discovery and clinical translation