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Squeezing creates new class of material built from clusters of carbon atoms.
High yield production of Actinium-225 and Radium-223 achieved by high energy proton bombardment of natural thorium targets.
Researchers reveal that microorganisms are responsible for transforming mercury into methylmercury, a highly toxic form of mercury, in streams.
Nanoscale features in rocks enable more carbon dioxide to be trapped as a solid carbonate material underground.
Insights into the origin of ligninases can help develop processes to convert biomass into bioenergy.
A microbe not known for cellulose degradation has 15 cellulases that may improve biofuel production.
Understanding how two microbes work together to produce the greenhouse gas methane.
Chemistry provides a route to selective binding and extraction of radioactive cesium.
Imaging tools aid research in global climate change, plant genetics, biofuels, agriculture, and carbon sequestration.
New calculations have quantified the boundaries and uncertainties of the ‘chart of the nuclides’—the extended periodic table of all matter.
A polar alga with lipid metabolism enzymes may prove useful harnessing algae for biodiesel production.
Recent findings reveal that existing climate models overestimate scattering and absorption of sunlight by aerosols at altitudes between 6-10 kilometers.
