Some treatments work better when a compound is released gradually, keeping its concentration within a useful range for longer. Engineered spider-silk materials are being investigated for precisely ...

Quantum entanglement is key to solving a 250-year-old mathematical puzzle – and the discovery could ultimately help build quantum computers that are more resilient to errors. In the 1700s, according ...

In March, I accompanied an international team of scientists on an expedition to one of the deepest places that humans have ever visited, a few hours outside Johannesburg, South Africa. Before sunrise, ...

You can't escape ozone in a big city, but we can all work to make less of it. Dan Smith shows how combining three oxygen ...

Slicing open a phenol ring with a simple nitrite reagent allows chemists to create a variety of nitrogen-containing products. The new method adds to the toolbox of skeletal editing strategies that ...

New research involving the University of Liverpool has provided comprehensive insights into the largest flood event in Europe over the past millennium—the flood traditionally known as "St. Mary ...