Unlike much of the news in the energy storage field, which often focuses on cathode breakthroughs, this study zeroes in on the chemistry of electrolytes – ...

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

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Antarctica is covered by a miles-thick ice sheet, but was that always the case? And when was the coldest continent ice-free?

Quote of the day by the woman who changed science, Maria Goeppert Mayer: In 1963, only the second woman in history won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Maria Goeppert Mayer earned it for the nuclear shell ...

A nuclear escalation in the Middle East would trigger a global catastrophe. Know the physics behind nuclear weapons, and the ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across ...

A research team in China has developed an electrolyte using monofluorinated hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) solvents capable of ...

Engineers at the University of New South Wales in Sydney have developed a method to convert discarded peanut shells into high-grade graphitic (graphene-like) carbon for potential use in batteries and ...

Tiny changes at the atomic scale can determine the future of clean energy. In a new study, Tohoku University researchers have revealed how the precise coordination environment surrounding a single ...

“There are about 55 million tonnes of peanut crops produced globally every year, yet most of the waste from the shell is ...

Researchers at UNSW have discovered a new way to make graphene, a remarkable "wonder material," using just discarded peanut ...