Chemists at UCLA are showing that some of organic chemistry’s most famous “rules” aren’t as unbreakable as once thought. By creating bizarre, cage-shaped molecules with warped double bonds—structures ...

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

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

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

Researchers from Jilin University identified single-walled carbon nanotubes in soil samples brought back from the far side of ...

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 ...

A sharp plunge in ocean calcium levels may be the missing link in Earth’s long transition from a hot, dinosaur-era greenhouse ...

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 ...

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

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

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, ...