A research team has tested a popular zinc hypothesis in paleo-ocean chemistry and concluded it is false. The fossil record indicates that eukaryotes, single-celled and multicellular organisms with…

Rose madder, a natural plant dye once prized throughout the Old World to make fiery red textiles, might be cool once again.  Chemists have developed a non-toxic and sustainable lithium-ion…

One way to clean up hazardous heavy metals like arsenic, lead and mercury in contaminated materials could be to use waste from the processing and canning of onions (Allium cepa L.) and garlic (Allium…

Teflon is popular, used on everything from cooking pans to armor-piercing bullets, but it has a waste byproduct, fluoroform, which has to be stored by chemical companies because it has an estimated…

The world's smallest reaction chamber has a mixing volume that can be measured in femtoliters - that's a million billionths of a liter. The reaction chamber actually consists of nothing more than a…

Chemists have been using the SPring-8 synchrotron at the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute to get a detailed look at enzymes that could help power the green economy.  One option for…

The wetting model is a classical problem in surface and biomimetic science.  Wettability is determined by the balance between adhesive and cohesive forces, adhesive which is when a liquid…

Researchers have unveiled a new way to use sunlight to produce steam and other vapors without heating an entire container of fluid to the boiling point. The research could lead to inexpensive,…

The Price Revolution in Europe, the runaway inflation that occurred during the years between 1515 to 1650, has been attributed to the sudden influx of silver from Mexico and Peru after discovery of…

The yeast used to make beer has yielded what may be the first gene for beer foam, CFG1, scientists are reporting in a new study. The discovery opens the door to new possibilities for improving the…