The notice offered a $10,000 prize to anyone who could invent a substitute for ivory in billiard balls. Playing pool was a booming leisure activity at the time, but the demand for ivory was already ...

Every cup of coffee you drink could be purifying the air soon. Researchers at the University of Sharjah have developed a ...

At K 2025, New Zealand-based Shear Edge showcased its wool-based Keravos technology, a natural fiber composite that reduces ...

Scientists Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel chemistry prize for developing a new form of ...

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A large mushroom farm near the Kenyan capital of Nairobi is one of a kind: It grows fungi on an industrial scale — not as ...

Rare earth magnets are essential for clean energy, but only a tiny fraction of the metals inside them are ever recycled. Cyclic Materials aims to change that by opening one of the largest rare earth ...

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi share the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work in the development of ...

Three scientists won the Nobel for developing material that can be used to capture carbon dioxide and harvest water from ...

STOCKHOLM – The Nobel Prize in literature is being announced on Thursday, with the winner joining an illustrious list of ...

Martin Pitt continues his series on the history of coal, looking at coal gas, balloons and the fuels that lit the world ...

From capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or sucking water out of dry desert air, the trio's new form of molecular ...