Chemistry

Extreme space weather may be more dangerous than researchers have long believed, according to new results published in Nature. The...

Aquatic ecosystems worldwide are deteriorating at an accelerating pace as climate change, dam operations, and intensified human activity push freshwater...

A new review in Biomedical Analysis maps how direct mass spectrometry is moving into Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) quality control,...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2025, recognizing advances in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), has thrust reticular materials into the global...

Crystal symmetry may determine whether hydrogen inside vanadium behaves like a classical particle or a quantum wave, according to a...

A team has mapped, in real time and with nanoscale precision, how photogenerated holes travel and react inside a facet-engineered...

Semiconductor surfaces—especially silicon and germanium (100)—owe much of their chemistry to a seemingly simple motif: the “buckled dimer.” In this...

Driven by the urgent need for safe, large-scale energy storage, zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) are gaining momentum as a “post-lithium” alternative....

Infrared cameras can reveal clues the human eye misses—such as gas leaks, chemical signatures in the atmosphere, and heat escaping...

A new chemical route could turn society’s most stubborn plastics into a clean hydrogen feedstock—without the sorting step that currently...