New research shows that these fields speed up water dissociation not by lowering energy costs, but by increasing molecular disorder once ions form. The reaction becomes entropy-driven—exactly the ...

Hydrogen is widely seen as a key energy source for the future, which makes it critical to understand how water is split during electrolysis ...

Cold cosmic dust grains can link amino acids into protein‑like chains in deep space, suggesting life’s chemistry may begin ...

The discovery of catalytic RNA transformed our understanding of life's beginnings. Clare Sansom explores how the RNA world ...

In a first for tristructural isotropic (TRISO) fuel research, a cross-cutting effort among scientists at the Department of ...

In proppant stability evaluations, LithX mobilized only a very small fraction of edge-bound silica, with no evidence of bulk silica dissolution or catastrophic matrix attack, indicating negligible ...

Plastic waste is no longer just an eyesore floating on the surface of rivers and seas. A growing body of research now shows ...

Grundfos enables data center operators to optimize cooling performance through advanced water treatment solutions that reduce ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.

Common ocean bacteria struggle to divide when conditions change, reshaping how warming seas affect ecosystems.

"We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have shown that this is clearly ...

An innovative approach to battery materials could bring sodium-ion energy density and charging speeds far closer to those of ...