Artisanal miners use mercury because it is simple. When mercury is mixed with ore, it binds with the gold, creating an ...

When frostbitten limbs warm up again, blood rushes back into the tissue. With that blood come compounds such as histamines ...

C&EN assistant editor Fionna Samuels discusses the steps taken by schools in Boston and Colorado to monitor and control air ...

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To color these pieces of silk with aniline blue dye, Gracile Roxas had to do her homework. Roxas, a textile conservator who ...

“Past studies on rock weathering have measured how the weathering process affects carbon capture, but they’ve overlooked the ...

Coprolites—fossilized feces—from the Jurassic hold traces of past meals. These deposits left by a herbivorous dinosaur ...

Algenesis submerged shoes made with its biodegradable polyurethane foam in the Pacific Ocean to demonstrate their ...

Microplastics are everywhere, from the tallest mountains to the deepest depths of the ocean. Where do they come from, and how ...

In Niterói, scientists note thousands of dengue cases averted in 2024—a record year for infections elsewhere in Brazil ...

Aizen is using generative artificial intelligence to discover mirror peptides made entirely out of d-amino acids. Like ...

The paper describes the program RFpeptides, which was developed in the labs of Gaurav Bhardwaj, Frank DiMaio, and 2024 Nobel ...