Chemistry

The Arctic is warming faster than the global average, and Siberia is emerging as one of the most important—and least...

A blazar located about 1.5 billion light-years away has challenged one of astronomy’s most widely used explanations for how these...

A new experiment has shown that sunlight, rather than a power-hungry laser, can generate entangled photons—particles of light whose properties...

A new “hive-inspired” nanocatalyst system could make one of chemistry’s most persistent challenges—recovering highly dispersed catalysts after a reaction—far easier....

A new electronic skin patch made largely from natural biomass-derived materials could bring wound care and wearable health monitoring onto...

A new cobalt-based electrode that can split water for hydrogen production while surviving hundreds of hours of demanding operation could...

Metastable materials often vanish from the laboratory bench before researchers can study them. They form only briefly, quickly transforming into...

Resonant optical systems can behave like exquisitely sensitive instruments, but extracting the physical information hidden in their spectral signals has...

Scientists have captured the smallest solar surface vortices ever directly observed, revealing previously invisible plasma motions that may help explain...

A long-running search for one of the most elusive particles predicted by modern physics has reached a decisive new stage....

Near-infrared light is invisible to the human eye, yet it quietly powers some of the technologies shaping modern life. It...

Carbon nanotube films have long been viewed as promising candidates for next-generation impact protection because they are exceptionally lightweight, flexible...

LAWRENCE, Kansas — A University of Kansas project aimed at upgrading one of the Large Hadron Collider’s most specialized detection...

Coal pyrolysis may have found a surprisingly simple way to become more selective. Researchers from Chongqing University and Monash University...

A fluffy, seaweed-inspired “net” could offer a new way to remove microplastics from water, capturing particles that range from visible...

Boston College researchers have created an electrically controlled “quantum nanocorral” that traps light-emitting particles inside an atomically thin semiconductor, opening...

Virginia Tech researchers have developed a chemical process that turns discarded polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, into polyalphaolefin, a high-performance material...

Open-access scholarly publisher MDPI has named Professor Ursula Röthlisberger of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) as the recipient...

A hidden reservoir of gas surrounding dense stellar filaments may be helping build the largest stars in the Milky Way,...

Ultrasound can make chemistry happen inside a liquid by creating microscopic bubbles that collapse with extraordinary force. Yet a new...