12+ hour, 48+ min ago  (792+ words) Sunlight hits tiny particles of plastic floating in a clear water solution. Slowly, they begin to disappear, leaving behind a familiar household chemical: acetic acid, the main ingredient in vinegar. At the University of Waterloo, engineers have developed a process…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (660+ words) Residents are campaigning against plans for a major "28.6m de-carbonisation project in the Peak District. The proposed Peak Cluster project will capture harmful carbon dioxide from three cement and lime plants and transfer it by pipeline to a storage facility under…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago  (644+ words) Blue light, a sheet of filter paper, and a stubborn class of industrial chemicals do not sound like much of a match. Yet that simple setup sits at the center of a new attempt to tackle PFAS, the long-lasting compounds…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago  (788+ words) A tiny burst of motion inside a molecule may be enough to shove an electron across a solar material almost as fast as nature permits. That is the striking result from a University of Cambridge-led study that tracked charge transfer…...

4+ mon, 1+ day ago  (299+ words) The Trump administration is proposing to loosen requirements for companies to report on their uses of "forever chemicals." These chemicals, many of which are toxic, have been used in a wide array of consumer and other applications, including to make…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (261+ words) While science has a solid grasp on calculating drag and resistance on microscopic spherical objects, particles like dust, microplastics, and viruses are rarely spherical. A new study re-analyzes a mathematical correction factor for calculating the drag of microscopic particles in…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago  (934+ words) A thin sheet of nylon does not look like much on its own. But in lab tests, a film made by researchers at RMIT University kept generating electricity after being folded, stretched, and even run over by a car, again…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago  (482+ words) German automaker Porsche is pursuing an unconventional route in its ongoing effort to preserve internal combustion engines while reducing emissions. Their patented process that uses a compound commonly found in antacid tablets, calcium carbonate. This is part of a method…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (331+ words) Fish trapped in a farmer's field in Shropshire are set to be rescued, after they were trapped following a major canal breach. Around 1,000 were washed on to the land next to the Llangollen Canal in Whitchurch, when it collapsed in…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago  (244+ words) After analyzing hair samples, researchers found that lead exposure saw a drastic downturn from the early 1900s through the 2020s. Levels of lead in the hair began to decrease after the EPA was established in the 1970s, and continued to go down as…...