Chemistry

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...

On-chip lasers are moving from laboratory demonstrations toward technologies that could reshape coherent communications, advanced displays, precision sensing, imaging and...

Water is often described as the universal solvent, but that familiar label captures only part of its importance. In living...

Smartphones, smartwatches and small drones may soon have access to a different kind of rechargeable power source—one designed not only...

Industrial wastewater could soon be treated with a material that is not only highly effective at capturing toxic lead, but...

A molecule that can be opened, closed, made to glow and even directed to form different products with different wavelengths...

Altermagnetism, a recently recognized form of magnetism that could reshape the future of computer memory, has taken a significant step...

Hydrogen is often described as a clean energy carrier, but producing it at the purity required for fuel cells, industrial...

A catalyst made from discarded fish bones could turn one of agriculture’s most persistent waste streams into a concentrated source...

An international team of astronomers has uncovered a previously hidden chapter in the life cycle of stars by observing fragments...

For billions of years, a globular cluster orbiting a distant galaxy has been slowly torn apart by gravity. The result...

Liquid battery electrolytes have long been described as if they were simple recipes: a salt dissolved in a solvent, perhaps...

Extreme weather is becoming more frequent and intense as the climate warms, but one of the planet’s most important drivers...

A new strategy could help transform aqueous zinc–iodine batteries from promising laboratory systems into practical large-scale energy-storage devices. In a...

New Carbon Nanotube Strategy Could Make Wearable Strain Sensors Last for Years Wearable strain sensors are rapidly moving from laboratory...

For decades, physicists have used atoms as microscopic machines for producing flashes of extreme-ultraviolet and X-ray light. Now, an international...