(Nanowerk News) Imagine an alien world with oceans of liquid metal. If such a world exists, metallic elements are likely the sources of the dissolved materials and particles in these oceans.

Scientists are developing new ways to replace harmful, carcinogenic, toxic acids and electrolytes which are currently used in many commercial metal finishing and energy storage processes. Scientists ...

Researchers have taken the first steps toward finding liquid solvents that may someday help extract critical building materials from lunar and Martian-rock dust, an important piece in making long-term ...

More than six decades after a young chemist floated a radical idea about how vitamin B1 might behave in the body, researchers ...

Researchers have taken the first steps toward finding liquid solvents that may someday help extract critical building materials from lunar and Martian-rock dust, an important piece in making long-term ...

Liquids and solutions are complex environments—think, for example, of sugar dissolving in water, where each sugar molecule ...

Natural flavors noted among the ingredients on food packages we pick up at the grocery store tend to be the most expensive items on the list. That’s a consequence of the scarcity of natural flavor ...

Industrial solvents are everywhere in the military. Whether you are degreasing machinery or stripping paint, you probably use a chemical that contains a solvent. Exposure to those chemicals, though, ...