Hydrogen production through water electrolysis is a cornerstone of the clean energy transition, but it relies on efficient ...

Plastic has become part of everyday life, but its benefits come with a serious cost. Cheap, durable plastics accumulate in ...

A way to electrically modify the chirality of organic–inorganic hybrid materials, in which chiral molecules adsorb onto ...

Gyatso Bista remembers the sacks of kutki. As a child learning to become a healer in Nepal’s kingdom of Lo Manthang, Bista ...

A new University of California San Diego School of Medicine study offers a unified biological model to explain how genetic predispositions and environmental exposures converge to cause autism spectrum ...

Electronics that can't be easily dismantled for recycling aren't very eco-friendly, nor are petroleum-based adhesives.

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal galactic rule—it's just one of many possible evolutionary paths. By recreating ...

Doctors explain how reduced daylight, winter stress and low vitamin D can subtly affect reproductive hormones, cycles and ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

Researchers have mapped the molecular changes that unfold as sunlight causes plastics to leach dissolved organic matter, ...

MIT scientists have achieved the first-ever lab synthesis of verticillin A, a complex fungal compound discovered in 1970. Its delicate structure stalled chemists for decades, despite differing from ...