For more than a century, the well-known 18-electron rule has guided the field of organometallic chemistry. Now, researchers at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), in collaboration with ...

Scientists have discovered hundreds of giant sand bodies beneath the North Sea that appear to defy fundamental geological ...

Quantum technologies, systems that operate leveraging quantum mechanical effects, have the potential to outperform classical ...

Microplastics (MPs) pollution is a prevalent environmental problem that affects ecosystems globally. Despite the growing ...

Mosquito-borne diseases kill more than 700,000 people every year, according to the World Health Organization, and the ...

Environmental groups welcomed on Monday Malaysia's decision to tighten regulations on plastic waste imports, but urged ...

A unusual attack by bees in the French town of Aurillac has left 24 people injured, including three in critical condition, ...

Technologies such as biomedical imaging and spectroscopy could be enhanced by a discovery in research that involved several ...

Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks—essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone, new ...

Electrons play many roles in solid materials. When they are weakly bound and able to travel—i.e., mobile—they can enable ...

A software package developed and validated at The University of Queensland can tailor safe, effective and chemical-free crop protection using RNA interference (RNAi). The dsRNAmax software designs ...

Australian microbe research is helping improve our understanding of the potential for life in extreme environments, offering ...