STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their development of new molecular structures that can trap vast quantities of gas inside, laying the groundwork to ...

Plants do more than photosynthesize – some of them make gold. In a boreal forest in northern Finland, scientists found tiny gold particles inside Norway spruce needles. Plants like the Norway spruce ...

“2025 will see breakthroughs in the precision chemistry of chiral materials and the physics arising from structural chirality. Driven by organic materials in earlier years, significant leaps in ...

Dishwasher pods sometimes get lumped into the same category as microplastics, but technically they’re different. The pods—used for laundry as well—are wrapped in a type of plastic called polyvinyl ...

Heavy metals get a bad rap. For the most part, it is deserved because they are usually toxic. Except when they aren't. You have probably consumed a whole lot of at least one or two of them, yet you ...

Just a few movies into her now-storied career, Glenn Close found herself starring opposite one of the most handsome and popular male movie stars of the time. In “The Natural,” Robert Redford played an ...

Decades ago, archaeologists discovered a sticky substance in a copper jar in an ancient Greek shrine. And until recently, the identity of the residue was still murky — is it a mixture of fats, oils ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. The solubility tables of 15 modern chemistry textbooks are cross-checked against ...

Dichloromethane, DCM, Methylene Chloride Dichloromethane (DCM or methylene chloride) is a colorless, volatile liquid with a sweet odor. It is widely used in a variety of commercial applications, ...

Solvent degradation is one of the major challenges for amine-based carbon capture development. Oxidative degradation appears to be influenced by the combined presence of oxygen and dissolved metals, ...