Chemistry

Water splitting is often described as a simple recipe: apply electricity to water, and hydrogen and oxygen emerge. In practice,...

Kyoto, Japan — A new study has identified a rare magnetic transition in which the familiar rules of mean-field theory...

Flexible wearable electronics may soon become far less vulnerable to winter conditions, thanks to a cellulose-based hydrogel that continues to...

Biochar may look like little more than charcoal, but inside its carbon-rich structure it can harbor chemically active species that...

Hydrochar, a carbon-rich material made by processing wet plant biomass in hot, pressurized water, may have a hidden defense system...

What happens when a heat engine is reduced to a single atom interacting with particles of light? The question may...

A new machine-learning-guided workflow has produced two promising materials for separating methane from nitrogen, offering a potential way to move...

ITHACA, N.Y. — A region of the North Atlantic often treated as a supporting player in the ocean’s vast circulation...

Students across the world appear to be changing the way they search for answers to physics questions, with generative artificial...

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