Chemistry

A new molecular design strategy is bringing two traditionally separate worlds of chemistry together: proteins, nature’s highly evolved molecular machines,...

For decades, the pursuit of purer colors in organic light-emitting diodes has followed a seemingly straightforward rule: make the molecules...

Buildings could soon get a powerful new tool for cutting heating and cooling demand: an artificial-intelligence system that learns the...

Respiratory infections and air pollution are often monitored with instruments that depend on pumps, batteries, tubing, and laboratory infrastructure. Those...

Artesunate, a drug best known for its lifesaving role in malaria treatment, may have a second life as a targeted...

Recovering gold and other valuable metals from discarded electronics, mine tailings and industrial waste could soon require far less chemical...

A carefully controlled chemical transformation has produced a supercapacitor electrode that combines the advantages of metal oxides and metal sulfides,...

In a result that could reshape how scientists understand electron transport in topological materials, researchers have observed an unusual form...

Long before a sunspot darkens the Sun’s visible surface, the magnetic forces that create it may already be leaving a...

Glasses are often celebrated for their strength, stability and resistance to deformation. Yet the very features that make a glass...

Light can now be made to rotate in a chosen direction without designing entirely new chiral molecules, according to researchers...

BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA — 13 August 2026 — A new publication is opening its doors to researchers working on one...

Distributed acoustic sensing, or DAS, is moving closer to becoming an intelligent nervous system for infrastructure, transportation and industrial facilities....

A decades-old question about what makes a proton a proton has taken a significant step toward an answer. New results...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Artificial intelligence could dramatically accelerate the search for technologies that transform carbon dioxide into useful fuels,...

A new physics-guided artificial intelligence framework could change how engineers design one of the most important circuits inside modern wireless...

Although modern cancer treatments can eliminate malignant cells with remarkable efficiency, their lack of perfect selectivity often exposes healthy tissues...

A tiny marine worm with no mouth, gut, or anus has helped overturn a long-standing assumption about how animals obtain...

Johannes Mitscherling, a theoretical solid-state physicist whose work explores the hidden geometry of quantum states, is establishing a new Emmy...

Sodium-ion batteries are moving closer to the center of the global energy-storage conversation, and a new optical sensor may help...