Push two metal plates together on Earth and nothing happens. Take those same plates into the vacuum of space and they can ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and their collaborators have demonstrated ...

What is life then, in the fundamental sense? Is it mere matter interacting with itself? Is it matter that organises and ...

I’m a chemist and also president of Pyrotechnics Guild International, an organization that promotes the safe use of fireworks and using them here in the U.S. to celebrate Independence Day and other ...

The Antarctic ozone hole was discovered in 1985, when scientists observed a severe depletion in the Earth's protective layer ...

A new solar-powered technology is offering a glimpse into a cleaner industrial future. Researchers at the University of Nottingham have developed a system that uses sunlight to convert carbon dioxide ...

Of all the strange worlds in our Milky Way galaxy, some of the most mysterious are those hanging around white dwarf stars.

Researchers at Aarhus University have shown that intense ultraviolet light alone can break apart per- and polyfluoroalkyl ...

There is growing demand for smart materials that can change their physical properties in response to various external stimuli ...

The International Space Station is now home to an even more capable quantum laboratory, where NASA cools atoms to nearly ...

In the latest research, telescope observations of 3I/ATLAS examine its chemical structure and suggest that it took shape in a ...