chemistry

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced in a tweet on Thursday night he will be give a $100 million prize for the…

The rapid recovery and analysis of a meteorite that fell onto a frozen lake in Michigan two years ago is…

On Wednesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to scientists Emmanuelle…

His full name isn’t as well known as Thomas Edison or Alexander Graham Bell’s, but if you spend any amount of time…

Fluorescence is typically associated with gases or liquids, but a team of chemists has conjured a new formula that…

An international operation led by Spanish authorities has arrested 18 members of a drug gang in Spain, Bulgaria, the…

Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, is one of the last places we think about when considering the potential for…

Simply sitting in a cinema to watch a movie can expose people to the equivalent of one to 10 cigarettes’ worth of…

Many of the potentially harmful chemicals found in our homes linger on walls and other surfaces, suggests a new…

Astronomers have documented a bizarre cycle of molecular destruction and rebirth on an ultra-hot, Jupiter-like…

European researchers are working on a system that can churn out breathable oxygen from simulated samples of moon dust…

Scientists have found deep-sea graphite that might help solve a deep-sea carbonaceous mystery, according to a new…

Neanderthals were regular users of fire, but archaeologists aren’t certain if these extinct hominins were capable of…

The Nobel Foundation has awarded scientists John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino the Nobel…

Scientists have created something of a reverse solar cell: a tool that generates electricity from the darkness of…

It’s been a weird one this week at Gizmodo, folks: From hacking buttplugs and realizing our dog photos have personall…

Some precision chemistry performed atop a slice of table salt has given researchers unprecedented views of a…

Scientists found evidence of dust produced in nearby supernovae hiding under a thousand pounds of Antarctic snow,…

Grains and water from Chernobyl’s dreaded exclusion zone have been used to produce a single bottle of vodka. Called…

This hot Jupiter is so close to its host star that gravitational forces are squeezing it into a football-like shape.…