Curved molecules that absorb sunlight, store the energy, and re-release it as heat are pushing the boundaries in solar ...

The method has applications in organic chemistry, particularly within the pharmaceutical industry. A team of scientists has ...

Reliance on bioremediation to remove benzene from anoxic environments has proven risky for decades but for unknown reasons. Research has revealed a strong link between anaerobic benzene biodegradation ...

Each year, over 350 million tons of plastic are produced, much of it ending up in landfills or the ocean. A major contributor ...

Palladium is the most versatile and widely used metal for catalytic molecular transformations. Owing to its high cost and limited availability, there is a strong demand to improve its catalytic ...

Budget cuts pit NASA’s burgeoning space telescope against other projects, and marking the 1825 isolation of benzene, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archives. Snippets from Nature’s past.