Chemistry

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...

Ceramic materials are the quiet workhorses of modern technology, powering everything from smartphone capacitors and computer circuits to electric vehicles...

The hunt for the axion, one of particle physics’ most elusive hypothetical particles, has entered a decisive new phase. The...