Chemistry

A one-year field experiment in China has revealed that a carefully combined soil-management strategy can dramatically increase organic carbon in...

Metasurfaces have transformed the way scientists manipulate light, but most existing devices still operate under a fundamental constraint: they primarily...

Gas molecules inside porous materials have long been treated as disordered guests, filling microscopic cavities according to averaged properties such...

Finnish researchers have developed living nanocellulose films that can produce ethylene for more than four months, offering a possible new...

Sodium-ion batteries are moving closer to the center of the global energy-storage race, and a new study from Japan has...

Boston College chemist Alexis Grimaud has received a five-year National Science Foundation CAREER Award worth nearly $600,000 to investigate a...

Lithium–sulfur batteries have long been regarded as one of the most promising alternatives to today’s lithium-ion technology. Sulfur is abundant,...

Physicists at TU Dortmund University have shown that continuous time crystals can synchronize with one another across surprisingly large distances...

Skyrmions—tiny magnetic vortices that can be moved by electric currents—have taken a major step toward becoming practical components in future...

Rice straw, often treated as agricultural waste, may be one of the most powerful tools available for storing carbon in...