Chemistry

Credit: Purdue University image/Kejie Zhao WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Electric cars rely on the same lithium-ion battery technology that's in...

Accurate measurements of mixed airborne molecules could improve breath alcohol tests, climate research and sensors for occupational health and safety...

Rice University researchers share their protocol for handling carbon nanotubesCredit: Barron Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 3, 2019) -...

An international research collaboration will study the interplay of climate and grazing on shaping tundra vegetation over millennia -- coordinated...

Credit: Kat Stockton New Haven, Conn. - Yale researchers have figured out how to catch and save Schrödinger's famous cat,...

De novo design allows for breakthrough in molecular photocontrolCredit: Wiktor Szymanski, University of Groningen Medical Center. A consortium of scientists...

Published in the World Health Organization Bulletin, the research analyzes 137 countries that use essential medicines lists to inform government...

Credit: Carlos Jones/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy Nuclear--Tiny test fuels For the first time, Oak Ridge National...

Credit: Elle Starkman When you peer into the night sky, much of what you see is plasma, a soupy amalgam...

Honor from Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation awards early-career chemist $600,000 for polymer researchCredit: Lee Pellegrini / Boston College Chestnut...

Credit: Nature Communications Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) managed to use boron as the X element in...

Credit: images created by Guoyan Wang & Lei Chen For the first time, researchers have observed a break in a...

Tokyo, Japan - The term colloidal gel might not be one that is immediately familiar to everybody. However, most people...

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, P. Cote This luminous orb is the galaxy NGC 4621, better known as Messier 59. As...

Rice University's laser-induced graphene nanogenerators could power future wearablesCredit: Tour Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (May 31, 2019) - Wearable devices...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Antibiotics prescribed by dentists as a preemptive strike against infection are unnecessary 81% of the time, according...

Thorough characterization demonstrates lasing by direct electrical stimulation of an organic film is possible, KOALA Tech Inc. founded to further...

Credit: Ellen Weiss/Argonne National Laboratory Work opens a path to precise calculations of the structure of other nuclei. In a...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers at Oregon State University have made an important advance in understanding the roles that gut bacteria...

Findings suggest hand hygiene is key, but more methods needed to fight multidrug-resistant infectionCredit: David Dorward; Ph.D.; National Institute of...