Water is all around us, yet its surface layer—home to chemical reactions that shape life on Earth—is surprisingly hard to ...

A new University of Maryland study of campus air samples revealed that chemical compounds from Canada’s historic 2023 fires lingered in the air, forming an ‘atmospheric soup.’ ...

As far as kitchen staples, you don’t really get much better than olive oil. It can do it all—jazz up a salad, sauté ...

Carbon-based materials may be the best solution in pollutant treatment, improving remediation technologies while addressing stability and degradation issues.

Forget the dusty, rusty landscape you see today. Billions of years ago, Mars may have been soaking wet. Tropical storms might ...

Warming is drying out forest soils and unexpectedly slowing nitrogen emissions, reshaping how these ecosystems respond to a ...

Nitrogen is a crucial component of proteins and nucleic acids, the fundamental building blocks of all living things, and thus is essential to life on Earth. Gaseous N2 from the atmosphere can be fixed ...

In Chile’s Atacama Desert, archaeologists have discovered some of the world’s oldest naturally preserved mummies—older even than Egypt’s. The desert’s extreme d ...

Exposure to a common chemical used in dry cleaning and some consumer products has been linked to triple the risk of a dangerous liver disease, a new study suggests. Tetrachloroethylene, also often ...

With age comes a natural decline in cognitive function, even among otherwise healthy adults without dementia. A new study finds that a cognitive training program may boost production of a brain ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ted Powers, University of California, Davis (THE CONVERSATION) An antibiotic ...