Chemistry

Flexible tactile sensing is a persistent bottleneck for robots, wearables, and bedside monitoring systems—especially when devices must remain reliable on...

Fuel cells promise a cleaner path to large-scale energy conversion, but cathode performance is still held back by sluggish oxygen...

Bioinspired by the “adhesion–conduction” blueprint of spider webs, a team from Lanzhou University, Nankai University, and Lanzhou Jiaotong University has...

MXenes—atomically thin transition metal carbides and nitrides—are drawing fresh attention for one simple reason: their surfaces are never truly bare....

Superionic conductors blur the boundary between solids and liquids by enabling certain ions to move extraordinarily fast while the material’s...

Lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries are drawing major attention for their extremely high theoretical energy density—but two persistent bottlenecks have kept real-world...

Researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have unveiled a fluorescence-based analytical approach to assess...

A global team of scientists has unveiled a striking recycling route that turns tough plastic waste into valuable organic acids...

July 15, 2026, Mountain View, CA — On July 16, 2024, a daytime meteor rattled New York City, producing a...

A new study suggests that tweaking the carbon dioxide supply in safe gas fermentation can markedly boost the production of...

A new inorganic “nanozyme” approach is aiming to improve treatment for infected wounds by solving a long-standing problem: how to...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., July 15, 2026 — A new systematic review suggests that switching to cigarettes engineered with dramatically reduced nicotine...

Extreme space weather may be more dangerous than researchers have long believed, according to new results published in Nature. The...

Aquatic ecosystems worldwide are deteriorating at an accelerating pace as climate change, dam operations, and intensified human activity push freshwater...

A new review in Biomedical Analysis maps how direct mass spectrometry is moving into Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) quality control,...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2025, recognizing advances in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), has thrust reticular materials into the global...

Crystal symmetry may determine whether hydrogen inside vanadium behaves like a classical particle or a quantum wave, according to a...

A team has mapped, in real time and with nanoscale precision, how photogenerated holes travel and react inside a facet-engineered...

Semiconductor surfaces—especially silicon and germanium (100)—owe much of their chemistry to a seemingly simple motif: the “buckled dimer.” In this...

Driven by the urgent need for safe, large-scale energy storage, zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) are gaining momentum as a “post-lithium” alternative....