Could there be an ocean buried deep beneath our feet, hidden some 700 kilometers below the Earth’s surface? If the recent ...

Society has long struggled with petroleum-derived plastic pollution, and awareness of microplastics' detrimental effects on ...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have optimized the strength and biodegradability of bioplastics that could replace petroleum based materials ...

A team at KAUST has revealed that the short lifespan of aqueous batteries is primarily due to "free water" molecules triggering harmful chemical reactions at the anode. By adding affordable sulfate ...

Scientists and regulators are divided over the threat posed by rising levels of a chemical called TFA.

By adding citric acid and squid ink to a cellulose-based polymer, researchers created a variety of structurally colored ...

E veryone's heard the warnings: The world produces 450 billion tons of plastic waste every year. It's polluting our oceans and landfills, and it's even invading our bodies. But what if we didn't just ...

For decades, scientists believed water was the essential cradle for life. But new research suggests life’s building blocks ...

Treating drinking water to tackle multiple pollutants could prevent more than 50,000 cancer cases in the U.S., a new study ...

Surface modification is an advanced strategy to engineer and optimize the work function of the perovskite oxides, which can influence the surface electron and ion transfer processes and tune the ...

Histatins are a family of multifunctional, cationic histidine-rich saliva peptides. The most prominently represented are Histatin 1, Histatin 3, and Histatin 5. Despite considerable similarities in ...