Here’s What Scientists Found When They Cooked Up Their Own ‘Mercury Rocks’
When studying Venus and Mars, Earth’s neighbors in the inner solar system, scientists often rely on what we…
2,000-year-old wall paintings reveal ingenious house painters
A new chemical study of the splendid wall paintings of the Domus of Salvius in present-day Cartagena discovered…
Researchers Turned Acid From Car Batteries Into Something Surprisingly Useful
Odd chemical pathways can give completely unexpected makeovers to some of the most troublesome waste; take, for example,…
Boosting Water Electrolysis Catalyst Performance via Simultaneous Control of Lattice Distortion and Oxygen Vacancies!
# A novel catalyst design enables simultaneous control of lattice structure and oxygen vacancies in molybdenum oxide through…
Most mass spectrometers can process just a few molecules at once. A reengineered prototype does a billion simultaneously
Newswise — Mass spectrometry is already a powerful tool for determining what kind and how many molecules are…
Buan Aims to Better Understand Biochemistry of Methanogens
Newswise — Methanogens are organisms so tiny that most people never notice them, yet they are nearly everywhere…
Fantastic Fungi Found with Ability to Freeze Water
Newswise — Can fungi influence the weather? Turns out, they just might. An international group of researchers that…
Frozen carbon dioxide spotted in a planetary nebula for the first time
The death of a star is usually thought to be a violent and hostile place, filled with scorching…
Quantum computers still struggle with chemistry’s hardest calculations
One of the biggest promises of quantum computing is the ability to simulate molecules with unprecedented accuracy. If…
High-temperature superconducting dome mapped in nickelate thin films
Physicists hunting for new superconductors often look for a very specific shape hidden in their data—a dome. In…
New model hints sea ice salt amplified Earth’s ancient global glaciation
Between 720 million and 635 million years ago, Earth may have experienced one of the most extreme climate…
Electric Eel Biology Inspires Powerful Gel Battery
Newswise — Power sources used in devices found in or around biological tissue must be flexible and non-toxic,…