65,000 liters of bright red tracer-tagged chemical entering the ocean sounds less like climate research than a cleanup emergency. In fact, the release was part of a closely watched experiment in ocean ...

Quantum theory in chemistry explains the behavior of atoms and molecules at the smallest scales, which is essential for understanding chemical reactions and properties. It provides the framework for ...

The process of transforming a barrel of oil into these products is managed in the discipline of chemical engineering, through which high-temperature vessels (called “columns”) allow fluids to be split ...

Research from Harvard's Organismic and Evolutionary Biology department has discovered that oyster microbes might help with the "heavy ...

For an oyster, creating an internal environment for calcification that forms its distinctive hard shell is essential. But new ...

Milliken secures independent verification from Forever Analytical as the fire service industry reaches an inflection point on PFAS and transparency.

When marine organisms die and sink, billions of tons of organic and inorganic carbon are carried downward each year. The ...

As any diver knows, oceans can be cloudy places. Even on sunny days, snow-like particles drift through the water column, obscuring the aquatic world ...

The construction industry is one of the world’s biggest sources of pollution, largely because it relies on materials like cement, sand, and gravel. Producing these materials requires large amounts of ...

Mercury is a metal, yet it has some weird physical properties, including being a liquid at room temperature.

When something is running on a system, whether it is a process, a service, or something bound to a port, there is always a cause. That cause is often indirect, non-obvious, or spread across multiple ...

A team of UC Santa Barbara engineering and molecular biology graduate students has developed software to accelerate the discovery process for therapies aimed at treating Alzheimer’s and other diseases ...