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...

A new catalyst design could help clean up one of the most stubborn sources of industrial air pollution: nitrogen oxides...

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

Hydrogen-producing enzymes known as -hydrogenases have long fascinated chemists, biologists and clean-energy researchers because they can rapidly catalyze the reversible...

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

Carbon dioxide is often described as a waste product, but researchers are developing increasingly practical ways to turn it into...

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

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...