A University of Waterloo research team is using artificial intelligence, data science and advanced mathematics to reveal how fires evolve...

Plastic pollution may be carrying a hidden chemical payload across Japan’s coastal waters. A study led by researchers at Japan’s...

Kanazawa University researchers have developed a light-powered method that selectively breaks strong carbon–hydrogen bonds while leaving weaker carbon–silicon bonds intact—an...

A tiny amount of one of the rarest substances on Earth has revealed a striking secret about the heaviest elements....

Rigoberto “Gobet” Advincula, a Governor’s Chair Professor jointly appointed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and...

Magnetic memory could be approaching a major materials breakthrough after researchers in Japan developed a two-step heating method that produces...

From schools of fish and flocks of birds to microscopic particles that assemble, scatter, and move as though they were...

Fibrous membranes could soon become far more effective at collecting water from fog, separating oil from water, and moving moisture...

Supercontinuum light sources are often described as “white lasers” because they produce an extraordinarily broad, continuous spectrum containing many colors...

Scientists have observed a form of organization in matter that looks less like a conventional crystal and more like an...