Electrochemical devices like batteries and fuel cells help power our modern lives. These devices traditionally contain a ...

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method that can track chemical changes in molten salt in real ...

LIBS plasma of molten salt aerosols is formed from a sparging salt vessel. Credit: Zechariah Kitzhaber/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of ...

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.

Our political chemistry set came in a box illustrated with George Washington’s happy humans, full of all the ingredients required for political experimentation. But, like an unsupervised 10-year-old ...

Hundreds of regular patterns spontaneously emerge on a small germanium chip. A curiosity about tiny dots on a germanium wafer ...

A strange energy source at the center of the Milky Way may be a new type of dark matter. Scientists found that hydrogen gas ...

Clean water is essential for daily life and life science applications. Researchers use demineralization to maintain water quality, though traditional methods might not keep up with changing conditions ...

Astronauts Piers J. Sellers (left) and David A. Wolf in the midst of a pre-breathe exercise in preparation for a spacewalk. | ...

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

The EU has recently approved the use of glyphosate for another decade. Bárbara Pinho examines the controversial pesticide's ...

Curiosity about a mistake that left tiny dots on a germanium wafer with evaporated metal films led to the discovery of beautiful spiral patterns etched on the surface of the semiconductor by a ...