Researchers at The University of Manchester and Hebei University of Technology have identified how a new class of catalyst can break down lignin into useful chemical building blocks, offering a more ...

Daphnia and other grazing zooplankton can also evolve resistance to some types of cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, which produce compounds that are toxic to people and pets. Daphnia that ...

A new study reveals that dual-atom catalysts behave in a fundamentally different way than scientists previously thought, challenging a long-standing model used to predict catalytic performance.

Push two metal plates together on Earth and nothing happens. Take those same plates into the vacuum of space and they can ...

Atomic defects can tune carbon quantum dots across UV to near-infrared light, guiding cleaner design of sensors, bioimaging ...

Is alien life really out there? For decades, humanity has looked at the night sky and asked the same question. Now, according ...

Most people perceive a cork in a bottle of wine as a simple plug meant to keep the liquid in and the outside world out. In ...

Gold’s pristine shine may depend on a hidden atomic rearrangement that makes oxygen reactions far harder, helping explain its ...

If you own a car, you are probably familiar with the different types of gasoline at the pump. However, there are lots of ...

Scientists have extracted atoms from eggshells that are 15 million years old which reveal how plants responded to high levels ...

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While designing anything for operation in space has its challenges, there is at least one thing that is more of a problem for objects in Earth orbit than for deep-space probes: atomic oxygen. We like ...