Researchers have found that manganese, an abundant and inexpensive metal, can be used to efficiently convert carbon dioxide ...

Carbon dioxide levels keep climbing, even after years of promises to cut emissions. At the same time, plastic waste pours ...

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

A new device can pull carbon dioxide from exhaust and air and turn it into a useful chemical, helping reduce pollution.

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

Excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, polluted water, and increasingly strict environmental regulations are driving the ...

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 ...

Excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, polluted water, and increasingly strict environmental regulations are driving the ...

Carbon is the elemental backbone of life on Earth and, increasingly, of our biggest climate challenge. The sixth element in the periodic table, carbon, forms the structure of every organic molecule - ...

By creating a 'little bit of the Universe in a bottle' in her lab, a PhD student in physics has reverse-engineered the ...