Analysis of diamonds provides a look inside Earth's mantle

Ability to see beyond the grayscale promises future of revelations

Unlike expensive explosive-detecting puffer machines in airports that rely on complicated mass spectrometry or high-performance liquid chromatography equipment, these liquid crystal sensors could be portable, wearable, and inexpensive.

A sensing technique that the U.S. military currently uses to remotely monitor the air to detect potentially life-threatening chemicals, toxins, and pathogens has inspired a new instrument that could “sniff” for life on Mars and other targets in the solar system

Scientists report that well water both near and far from leaking coal ash ponds in North Carolina contains hexavalent chromium from natural sources

"We have made a video of a very fundamental process: for the first time we are not imagining what is happening inside a solar cell, we are actually seeing it" says researcher

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 to
for the design and synthesis of molecular machines

“Two-dimensional mass spectrometry has the potential to exponentially increase our knowledge in all areas, from biochemistry to food safety and environmental chemistry”

Infrared spectroscopic imaging has been limited to studies of dried tissue samples because water molecules absorb and interfere with the infrared signal

The findings present a promising step forward towards being able to manipulate and control the behaviour of high energy, or ‘hot’, electrons

The major influences on ocean chemistry today are hydrothermal flow (hot water that has circulated through the crust) and surface weathering (the river transport of material eroded from land into the ocean)

These molecular machines are often as elaborate as man-made devices, but exactly how they work is much harder to understand because of their extremely small size