Chemistry

Cigarette butts, long dismissed as a minor nuisance of everyday life, have now been shown to constitute one of the...

The world's plastics, fuels, and countless everyday chemicals begin with a deceptively simple chemical transformation: stripping hydrogen from saturated hydrocarbon...

Scientists have unveiled a detailed quantum-mechanical portrait of how phosphoric acid molecules anchor themselves inside proton-conducting polymer membranes, revealing cooperative...

Soybean meal, the protein-rich byproduct left behind after soybean oil extraction, has long occupied an awkward position in the global...

Pharmaceutical pollution is one of the quiet success stories of modern chemistry and one of the quiet failures of modern...

In a remarkable demonstration of turning one of Earth's most abundant raw materials into a high-performance environmental technology, researchers in...

Freshwater scarcity has become one of the defining challenges of the twenty-first century, and scientists around the world are racing...

Soils have long been celebrated as quiet guardians of the planet's carbon, locking away vast quantities of organic matter in...

A simple, low-cost nanomaterial made from two abundant transition-metal oxides can both destroy one of the world's most persistent antibiotic...

Researchers in Malaysia have developed a biodegradable packaging film that can visibly signal food spoilage as it happens, shifting through...