2+ hour, 29+ min ago   (911+ words) Scientists found a way to mass-produce a low-cost catalyst that turns captured carbon dioxide into chemicals used in fuels, plastics and medicines. Turning captured carbon dioxide from power plants and factories into useful chemicals has struggled to make economic sense....

6+ hour, 1+ min ago   (974+ words) A new electric plasma process makes cement in seconds, uses heat more efficiently, and could reduce emissions from cement production. Cement is in the sidewalk outside your door, the foundation under your house, and nearly every bridge you drive over....

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1188+ words) A new chemical process gives PVC waste a surprising second life, turning everyday plastic products into a potentially valuable material. A pipe under a kitchen sink and the credit card that pays for groceries are made of the same type…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (968+ words) using engineered yeast and 3D printing. A discarded water bottle and a pile of corn stalks sound like the last things anyone would put near a cookie tray. Yet researchers have used their carbon-rich components to create a protein-rich, vanilla-scented food…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (921+ words) Flame retardants banned across Europe decades ago are still turning up in the environment, from industrial areas to remote Arctic and alpine regions. Some chemicals do not disappear after governments ban them. A sweeping new review found that flame retardants…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (823+ words) Physicists in Barcelona captured the first direct images of a supersolid, a quantum state of matter that flows like a liquid while holding a crystal pattern. In this quantum state, atoms hold the rigid, repeating pattern of a crystal. At…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (918+ words) Cement plants could become carbon-negative by combining electric kilns with direct air capture to pull CO2 from the atmosphere. Cement is in nearly every sidewalk, foundation, and highway overpass on Earth. Making it means heating limestone until it breaks apart. That…...

4+ week, 21+ hour ago   (845+ words) Scientists in Germany have built a compact device that converted up to 31.3 percent of incoming sunlight into chemical energy stored as hydrogen during outdoor testing. Put simply, that is almost one-third of the sunlight reaching the device. The researchers say…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (1281+ words) The machine is not new. For decades it has drawn blood from one arm, stripped the cholesterol out, and sent it back. What is new is what else came out: forever chemicals in the blood. Nearly everyone alive carries forever…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (805+ words) Every other common metal pays a price for touching the world. Iron rusts, copper turns green, and silver slowly blackens. Gold alone stays bright, and physicists have long known that the explanation lies not in ordinary chemistry but in Einstein’s…...