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

The roughly 40 million Americans who get drinking water from wells are at particular risk when harmful forever chemicals contaminate the supply.

Some brands of bottled water contain significantly higher levels of microplastics than tap water, according to new research ...

As the spallation neutron beam passes through the TRISO particle, some neutrons are absorbed by the uranium while most are scattered away. A neutron area detector collects the scattered neutrons, ...

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

Lonar Lake, the 50,000-year-old meteorite-impact crater in Buldhana district, has long drawn scientists and tourists for its rare ecology, high salini.

Fluorine has changed the world of medicine. You might not see it, but newly approved drugs contain at least one fluorine atom ...

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

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 ...

At the heart of giant planets like Uranus and Neptune, water has astonishing properties, in a state called superionic. Superionic water manifests only under extreme conditions, with temperatures ...

China’s massive petrochemical capacity expansion is hitting other Asian countries hard. In Japan, four ethylene crackers are set to close in the coming years, reducing the number of operating units in ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows. The complex precursors to biological molecules can form spontaneously in interstellar space, according ...