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

Deep inside a nearby galaxy, a black hole sits behind a thick wall of dust. Almost all its light gets trapped.

When materials are compressed, their atoms are forced into unusual arrangements that do not normally exist under everyday conditions. These configurations are often fleeting: when the pressure is ...

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

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

A common iron mineral hiding in soil turns out to be far better at trapping carbon than scientists realized. Its surface ...

A rare copper nanocluster has been synthesised that behaves as a ‘superatom’. The Chinese team hopes it will unlock copper’s long-promised potential for sustainable carbon-to-fuel chemistry, turning ...

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

The low-carbon limestone calcined clay cement offers up to 40 per cent lower CO2 emissions for infrastructure and project-led construction ...

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

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 - ...