Dr. Omar Yaghi, at UC BerkeleyDon Feria—courtesy of Atoco Back in 2014, Omar Yaghi, a chemistry professor at the University of California, noticed something unusual about a new water-attracting ...

One of the most influential science studies of all time started with a modest minicomputer, some simulated boxes of water molecules, and a grand vision for computer-aided chemistry. The year was 1982.

Organic chemist Bruce Lipshutz had a bit of a rude awakening. It was around 2007, and the head of environmental health and safety (EH&S) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, sat Lipshutz ...

The 2024 ACS Sustainability Summit explored the vital role of chemistry in advancing U.N. Sustainable Development Goal #6: Clean Water and Sanitation. Thoughout the summit, leading experts in academia ...

New research shows that these fields speed up water dissociation not by lowering energy costs, but by increasing molecular disorder once ions form. The reaction becomes entropy-driven—exactly the ...

Technology advances for heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs) at power plants continue to provide higher efficiency, with major gains recognized in natural gas–fired and cogeneration systems in ...

DENVER — For years, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's leaders believe one of its chemists altered the results of drinking water tests, but the state did not catch the data ...