
Environment
Sea life may suffer as plastic bits alter metals in water
This interplay between plastics and metals could affect how each affects the environment — and suggests opportunities for controlling their risks.
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This interplay between plastics and metals could affect how each affects the environment — and suggests opportunities for controlling their risks.
Tangled polymer chains help hydrogels hold their shape despite being full of water.
A new study finds they can leak benzene and other harmful chemicals into homes, sometimes at very high levels.
Animals and other life on Earth exhale carbon dioxide, which plants use for photosynthesis. But too much of this gas can perturb Earth’s climate.
Long, thin bacteria that conduct electricity may be able to help clean up oil spills and reduce emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.
Physicists looked at how the quarks that make up protons move in response to electric fields. And they found more movement than expected.
The ‘perfect’ metal may belong to the fictitious Marvel world of Wakanda, but scientists hope to one day mimic some of its key traits.
Neutrons are one of the main building blocks of atoms and have no electric charge.
Most people know solids, liquids and gases — but what about the four other states of matter?
This so-called ‘click chemistry’ allows scientists to build complex molecules in the lab and in living cells.