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Research published in ACS Central Science reveals a method that uses pulsed infrared light to identify molecular profiles in ...

Iron and its alloys, such as steel and cast iron, dominate the modern world, and there’s growing demand for iron-derived ...

To better understand how microplastics accumulate and disperse in marine environments, new research published in ACS’ ...

For more than 30 years, scientists from around the world have flocked to a museum in the Italian Alps to learn from a 5,300-year-old man. He’s known as Ötzi the Iceman, nicknamed for the nearby Ötzal ...

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SAN DIEGO, March 26, 2025 — Can you imagine a smartphone with a wooden touchscreen? Or a house with wooden windows? Probably not — unless you’ve heard of transparent wood. Made by modifying wood’s ...

M.S.: Geology, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico Ph.D.: Geochemistry, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico WHAT SHE DOES NOW: Director, ...

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Potassium nitrate (KNO 3), known historically as saltpeter or the mineral niter, is a common salt with multiple uses. It has been known since antiquity; an early appearance in the chemical literature ...