Born as a coal-tar dye, reborn as a “magic bullet,” methylene blue has taken an improbable journey from textile vats to today ...

If you’ve been in the market for a new hair dryer, you’ve likely seen advertising for ionic ones. Some claim to produce negative ions in the millions – with or without the help of added minerals like ...

Photodynamic treatment of cancer is based on administering an initially inactive substance that is only activated in the tumor via targeted light irradiation. It then generates reactive oxygen species ...

Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics scientists have been able to disentangle the X-ray glow originating in our ...

Persistent micropollutants such as pharmaceuticals are notoriously difficult to remove from water because many oxidation ...

Ice comes in more forms than what you’ll find in a freezer or a glacier. Since 1900, scientists have observed more than 20 ...

Mercury is a small, rocky planet about which researchers know relatively little. Two missions, taking readings as they passed ...

The cause of inefficiency in hydrogen fuel cells has been identified for the first time in the world using a new analytical method. The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) announced on ...

Scientists have developed a fuel cell that uses microbes in soil to produce electricity. The device can power underground ...

The common laboratory practice of using sacrificial agents to boost photocatalytic hydrogen evolution is holding back the ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials have uncovered how lithium dendrites ...