A new microscopy technique allows scientists to see single-atom-thick boron nitride by making it glow under infrared light.

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Researchers from the Physical Chemistry and Theory departments at the Fritz Haber Institute have found a new way to image layers of boron nitride that are only a single atom thick. This material is ...

Fritz Haber was a proud German who was raised a Jew and yet became a fierce, committed nationalist. He was honored by the Kaiser for his scientific work and was awarded a Nobel Prize ---yet he ...

Nearly a century ago, a German chemist named Fritz Haber figured out a way to tap into the atmosphere's vast reservoir of nitrogen. That innovation led to nitrogen fertilizer, which transformed world ...

It has been claimed that as many as two out of five humans on the planet today owe their existence to the discoveries made by one brilliant German chemist. Image caption, Fritz Haber's inventions both ...

It has been claimed that as many as two out of five humans on the planet today owe their existence to the discoveries made by one brilliant German chemist. Fritz Haber's inventions both saved millions ...

Yet this is the same chemist denounced by young German students today as a "murderer". No-one personifies better than Fritz Haber the debate over science's capacity for good and evil. And there is ...