New research flips a long-held belief that frozen environments slow down chemical reactions and helps explain why Arctic ...

Ice does something unexpected to dissolving iron—and it could help explain the Arctic’s strange orange rivers.

How do frozen environments influence chemical reactions? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the ...

For scientists, though, one big mystery still remained. Although will-o’-the-wisps are not actual flames and occur at ambient ...

Scientists found that biochar doesn’t just capture pollutants, it actively destroys them using direct electron transfer. This ...

Ice crystals are surprisingly tolerant of defects in their structure. The findings come from the first-ever molecular-resolution observations of nanoscale samples of ice frozen from liquid water.