Category Archives: Highlights

Electric arc furnace tackles low-grade ores, emitting much less carbon dioxide than conventional methods.

Not known for their outgoing nature, 4f orbitals have been caught steering a reaction for the first time.

Companies are gradually overcoming technical challenges with batteries that offer longer driving range and safer operation.

Researchers find bonding surprises at the extreme end of organometallic chemistry.

A world-first facility has a new way to break down ‘unrecyclable’ plastic waste.

Reactive oxygen species in cells cause proteins to link up through disulfide bonds, reducing their mobility.

Public funding brings producers and users of clean hydrogen together to boost adoption of the gas.

Generating common fluorinating agents directly from the mineral avoids the dangers of hydrogen fluoride.

Twenty years after the ballyhooed discovery of graphene, the atom-thin carbon sheets are finding their footing.