Six high school students at the Alabama School of Math and Science are taking science to the sea. They are students from all ...

Rising carbon dioxide boosts plant growth but reduces key nutrients, weakening global food quality and crop nutrition.

Associate Professor Konstantinos Vogiatzis' lab in the Department of Chemistry is leveraging computational chemistry to ...

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.

Waste is everywhere. All the cities in the world invariably produce sewage sludge — the thick, organic mess left over from ...

A team of scientists have elucidated an ancient mechanism of cellular respiration. To that end, they studied bacteria that feed on the gases carbon dioxide and hydrogen, and turn them into acetic acid ...

Cast iron has a 2% to 3.5% carbon content, while carbon steel has less than 2%. This subtle difference results in two pieces ...

Biology might ultimately provide a solution, however. Researchers have identified bacteria that evolved the ability to digest ...

Animals, plants and many other living organisms inhale oxygen to "burn" (oxidize) compounds like sugar into CO2 and water—a process during which the energy-rich molecule ATP is produced. Cells require ...

Fatty acids are organic acids with at least one carboxyl (-C(=O)OH, -COOH or -CO2H) group and a long carbon chain that can be joined by double bonds, as in unsaturated fatty acids, or single bonds ...

Tarpeh said cobalt, nickel, and lithium streams will dry up in the next decade and that the economic value of lithium-ion batteries — which is 10 times higher than lead-acid batteries — presents a ...