When materials are compressed, their atoms are forced into unusual arrangements that do not normally exist under everyday ...

Scientists are finding new ways to replace expensive, scarce platinum catalysts with something far more abundant: tungsten ...

Chemist Omar Yaghi invented materials called MOFs, a few grams of which have the surface area of a football field. He ...

A rare copper nanocluster has been synthesised that behaves as a ‘superatom’. The Chinese team hopes it will unlock copper’s ...

New research reveals how biochar is expanding beyond soil use to clean water, capture carbon, and boost renewable energy ...

Princeton researchers believe seashells might just hold the key to stronger concrete.

As the global climate crisis deepens, researchers are turning to technologies capable of delivering fundamental change. Quantum computing, long considered largely theoretical, is now being explored as ...

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) offer versatile solutions for gas separation and drug delivery, driven by their high surface ...

Vertical graphene microstructures break the thickness-performance tradeoff in thermoacoustic speakers, enabling flexible ...

The discovery fundamentally changes the understanding of a structure in the avian eye that has been misinterpreted for centuries.

Irvine startup Atoco is drawing attention after its founder, Omar Yaghi, won a 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Yaghi, a ...