Thousands of mysterious black balls recently washed up on Sydney beaches, including Bondi, Bronte, Tamarama, Maroubra, and Coogee Beach, prompting immediate closures and cleanup efforts. First spotted ...

In its pure form, calcite can be white or colorless, but often contains impurities or trace elements. These can affect its ...

We are living on a planet already hotter and more unstable than at any time in human history. Pretending otherwise will only ...

Carbon pricing is about recognizing the cost of pollution and accounting for those costs in our daily decisions by choosing less carbon-intensive options. Fuel charge: paid by fuel distributors and ...

An international team led by scientists of GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz, succeeded in determining the chemical properties of the ...

All life on Earth is based on the element carbon, but scientists aren’t sure what initially supplied all that carbon to our ...

Berkeley chemists have created a reusable material that pulls carbon dioxide from ... For radioactive elements, “there’s no ...

Scientists have identified one of the largest carbon-based molecules in space yet. It could help us decode the origins of ...

Scientists found 1-cyanopyrene, the largest polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon detected by radio astronomy to date ...

New research shows plants absorb 31% more CO2 than previously estimated, raising the global GPP to 157 petagrams per year.

The chemistry of photography is based on photosensitivity and reactions with light. The chemical processes that create a traditional photograph start inside the camera with the absorption of photons.

We used a two-step extraction process to isolate as diverse chemical mixtures as possible," says Georg Braun, postdoctoral researcher in Beate Escher's working group and first author of the study.