Civilisations name their ages after materials. In school, we learn about the Stone Age, the Bronze Age – and we are currently in a silicon age characterised by computers and phones. What might define ...

Here’s a novel pathway to a more sustainable planet: carbo-loading for the public good. In a new study published in Nature Synthesis, chemists at Yale and the University of California-Berkeley have ...

The Chemours Company CC has signed a definitive agreement to sell the remaining land at its former titanium dioxide manufacturing site in Kuan Yin, Taiwan, marking progress in its portfolio and ...

An unexpected discovery in a Harvard lab has led to a breakthrough insight into choosing an unconventional material, silica, to make optical metasurfaces – ultra-thin, flat structures that control ...

A sequel to the 2016 hit, this movie about an animal metropolis takes on an even messier social allegory than the first one, while building out a wider (if bloated) universe. By Brandon Yu When you ...

New materials promise safe, efficient hydrogen storage. Credit: H2MOF Storage and transport challenges are key reasons that hydrogen has not been widely adopted as a fuel. Compression and liquefaction ...

The polymers around us are basically a disordered mess, with long chains of atoms tangled around each other. But starting around 1990, chemists began developing techniques that allow us to build ...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 has been awarded for the development of metal-organic frameworks (MOF) to Susumu Kitagawa, PhD, professor at Kyoto University, Japan, Richard Robson, PhD, professor ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa, and Omar M. Yaghi for their groundbreaking work in the design and synthesis of metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs.

When you spend enough time in the EDC (Everyday Carry) community, you develop a certain reverence for titanium. It’s the material of choice for high-end pocket knives, ultra-light pry bars, and pens ...

I rate Tronox as a HOLD due to near-term demand weakness in TiO2, margin pressures, and free cash flow concerns despite long-term tailwinds. Recent earnings disappointed, with negative surprises, ...

Rachael Wakefield-Rann receives research funding from various government and non-government organisations. She does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...