Science Made Simple: What Are Isotopes?
What Are Isotopes? A family of people often consists of related but not identical individuals. Elements have families as well, known as isotopes. Isotopes are…
What Are Isotopes? A family of people often consists of related but not identical individuals. Elements have families as well, known as isotopes. Isotopes are…
Chemistry is helping us figure out how life got started on Earth and is giving us molecules to look for on other planets. In this…
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What sets chemistry apart from other natural sciences is the ability to get creative and find amazing solutions to long known problems. A PhD student…
Catalysts are one of those things that few people think much about, beyond perhaps in high school chemistry, but they make the world tick. Catalysts…
LED lightbulbs offer considerable advantages over other types of lighting. Being more efficient, they require much less electricity to operate. They do not give off…
Key to Cleaner Combustion? Look to the Stars In a decade-long quest, scientists at Berkeley Lab, the University of Hawaii, and Florida International University uncover…
Around the world, a huge amount of research and development work is currently being done on carbon-containing, or organic, molecules that emit colored light after…
Researchers have created a plant-based, sustainable, scalable material that could replace single-use plastics in many consumer products. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, created…
How Metals Work Together to Weaken Hardy Nitrogen-Nitrogen Bonds Nitrogen, an element that is essential for all living cells, makes up about 78 percent of…
Imaging technique could enable new pathways for reducing concrete’s hefty carbon footprint, as well as for 3-D printing of concrete. The concrete world that surrounds…
Chemical engineers have found a way to load more drug into a tablet, which could then be made smaller and easier to swallow. About 60…
Most high-value chemicals are currently produced using fossil fuels – industrial chemistry’s use of petroleum accounts for 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions. An exciting…
A design concept changes how materials separate gaseous mixtures. A more energy-efficient method improves how an industrial gas is purified by reversing the traditional process….
In the perpetual arms races between bacteria and human-made antibiotics, there is a new tool to give human medicine the edge, in part by revealing…
Silk proteins formed fibers, crosslinks, and iron complexes similar to those used by the sea creatures. If you have ever tried to chip a mussel…