Chemistry

Carbazole does not look like a superstar. It is a modest tricyclic molecule, a five-membered nitrogen-containing pyrrole ring fused between...

Vitamin B12 sits at the center of one of the most quietly important measurement problems in food science. The vitamin,...

Rice feeds more than three billion people every day, yet the way it is grown may shape far more than...

Alzheimer’s disease remains one of medicine’s most stubborn adversaries, and a new comprehensive review published in the Journal of Saudi...

Acute kidney injury is one of the most deceptive conditions in modern medicine. It can strike suddenly in hospitalized patients,...

A team of chemists in India has built a graphene-based nanocomposite that can pull two of the textile industry’s most...

Every day, humanity drinks roughly three billion cups of coffee, and the spent grounds left behind add up to more...

Rice protein has long been treated as an afterthought of the food industry. Left over in enormous quantities from starch...

Supercapacitors sit at the heart of the modern energy transition, bridging the gap between batteries, which store large amounts of...

In a finding that sounds like it was lifted from the pages of an entomological thriller, researchers in Kerala, India...

Every drilled oil and gas well is a quiet chemical battleground. Water-based drilling mud, the workhorse fluid that cools the...

A team of materials scientists has engineered a titanium dioxide photocatalyst that, when doped with two seemingly unremarkable elements—sulfur and...

Solid oxide fuel cells promise some of the cleanest electricity generation available today, converting hydrogen and oxygen directly into power...

The vivid colors on a modern television or smartphone screen are not experienced in exactly the same way by everyone...

For centuries, cooks across China have reached for a splash of Baijiu, the country’s iconic distilled spirit, before tossing lamb...

A ferroelectric plastic that can harvest energy from a heartbeat, remember data without power, and bend inside a flexible sensor...

Insect pests are quietly winning a war that most of the world never sees. With an estimated four to six...

Microplastics have become one of the most pervasive pollutants on the planet, turning up everywhere from the deepest ocean trenches...

The sizzle of pork belly hitting a hot wok is one of the most recognizable sounds in Chinese cooking, and...

Every time a copper smelter pours molten metal into an anode mold, a quiet saboteur goes to work. A thin...