Willard Libby is one of the most influential radioactivity scientists of the last 100 years. He discovered radiocarbon dating, which is the practice of measuring the amounts of carbon-14 in ...

Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is a method used to extract oil beyond primary and secondary techniques. Explore different EOR ...

But tungsten carbide has properties that have limited its applications. Marc Porosoff, an associate professor in the University of Rochester's Department of Chemical and Sustainability Engineering, ...

Louis E. Brus, a chemist and Nobel laureate who discovered quantum dots, tiny crystals that emit various colors of light ...

Hygiene was far from ideal in the Roman city, which was not connected to a river and relied on wells more than 30 meters deep ...

A small Finland-based start-up claims to have made a big, solid-state battery breakthrough. It just forgot to bring evidence ...

Toray creates breakthrough OPP film with heat resistance matching engineering plastics for electronics and automotive ...

MICROPLASTICS are plastic particles smaller than five millimeters that originate from the breakdown of larger plastic items or are manufactured at small sizes for industrial and consumer use. They are ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

Evidence from fossil shells suggests that falling seawater calcium helped lock away carbon dioxide and helped cool Earth after the dinosaurs.

New study presents the first full life-cycle assessment of a wastewater treatment system, using Daphnia-based technology.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), in collaboration with astrophysicists from the ...