Growing mountains of textile waste are hard to recycle. There is scope to improve chemical and mechanical recycling methods but consumers and fashion brands play a role in reducing overproduction.

Results suggest the clouds of Venus could be hospitable for some forms of life.

Software allows scientists to model shapeshifting proteins in native cellular environments.

The technology could offer a cheap, fast way to test for PFAS, which have been linked to cancer and other health problems.

Electric vehicles are catching on across the US, but they’re also catching on fire in colder regions like the Northeast and Midwest.

The work will help researchers tune surface properties of perovskites, a promising alternative and supplement to silicon, for more efficient photovoltaics.

Applying a small voltage to a catalyst can increase the rates of reactions used in petrochemical processing, pharmaceutical manufacture, and many other processes.

The science of smell is an exciting area of research.

The finding provides new insights into the ultrafast control of magnetic materials, with potential to enable next-generation information processing technologies.

Lithium-ion battery fires are becoming increasingly common as electric vehicles spread, and are hard to extinguish. A new approach uses an electrolyte based on a commercial fire extinguisher.