Water desalination plants could replace expensive chemicals with new carbon cloth electrodes that remove boron from seawater, an important step of turning seawater into safe drinking water.

Smaller fish species are more nutritious, lower in mercury and less susceptible to overfishing, a Cornell-led research team has found.

Ammonia is the most widely produced chemical in the world today, used primarily as a source for nitrogen fertilizer.

The excitement surrounding potential benefits of generative AI, from improving worker productivity to advancing scientific research, is hard to ignore.

By editing the polymers of discarded plastics, chemists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found a way to generate new macromolecules with more valuable properties than those of the starting material.

New research has tracked the evolution of a glacier lake dammed by a glacier surge using satellite images, to help better understand its life cycle and the hazard it presents to nearby communities.

A new study finds that trees that have lived through many wet years struggle to cope with dry spells.

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have discovered that the neonicotinoid pesticide clothianidin disrupts different parts of bumble bee bodies in strikingly different ways.

As wildfires continue to rage across the Los Angeles area, their toll on lives, homes, and natural landscapes is undeniable.

For many industrial processes, the typical way to separate gases, liquids, or ions is with heat, using slight differences in boiling points to purify mixtures.