Researchers say the polymetallic nodules that mining companies hope to harvest from the deep-ocean seafloor may be a source of oxygen for the animals, plants and bacteria that live there. This ...

Researchers have reported a new protein-design strategy to sidestep the Irving-Williams Series, allowing proteins to behind to other metals ahead of copper. It may seem counterintuitive to many, but ...

FARGO — We all know there is oxygen in the air because we breathe oxygen in the air to live. But the air we breathe is not just pure oxygen. Actually, air is mostly nitrogen. Nitrogen is fairly ...

Take in the fireworks this Fourth of July weekend and you’ll witness the results of centuries of chemical innovation. Gunpowder goes boom, sure, but modern fireworks use a wide range of metals to ...

These contained the metals cobalt, nickel, rhodium, palladium, silver, europium, iridium, platinum, molybdenum and gold. "Many of the metal compounds demonstrated a good activity against all fungal ...

Colorado's mountain streams are facing a "real challenge" from a rising concentration of heavy metal levels. These rising levels are only worsening with climate change, a new study found. The amount ...

Impossible Metals Bahrain has applied for a deep-sea mining exploration contract with the International Seabed Authority (ISA). The application, backed by the Kingdom of Bahrain, seeks to explore for ...