A low-cost nanocomposite made from ordinary kaolin clay and two metallic elements has shown strong and repeatable performance in breaking...

Ethiopia’s Giant Open Dump Has a Hidden Risk Map—and Water Pollution Tops It Every day, roughly 3,000 tonnes of municipal...

A new study in Nature Chemistry describes a light-driven chemical strategy that could give researchers unusually precise control over the...

A Copper–Iron Hybrid Turns Air’s Oxygen Into a Water-Purifying Weapon A new catalyst that converts ordinary molecular oxygen from air...

A widely used antiviral drug could be made through a radically different chemical route—one that turns carbon dioxide and phosphite...

Diamond is famous for being exceptionally hard, but hardness has always come with a serious weakness: brittleness. A diamond can...

Metal nanoparticles are entering the underground world in growing quantities, and scientists are warning that the soil beneath our feet...

The conversion of 1,4-butanediol into γ-butyrolactone, a valuable solvent and chemical intermediate, has received a fresh boost from a catalyst...

A high-entropy alloy made from iron, cobalt, nickel, chromium and manganese has been transformed into a long-lasting hydrogen-production electrode through...

A new study in Nature Chemistry describes a general strategy for turning short peptides into brightly coloured fluorescent reporters that...