Power plants that use steam to generate electricity need water. Without it, they can’t do their job. But water and steam are complicated, much as is blood in our veins and arteries. So, water ...

Renewable resources now provide a significant portion of U.S. electricity needs. However, issues related to renewable energy storage capacity, a projected large nationwide load increase (much of it ...

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 ...

The Environmental Chemistry research area has its core in the chemical sciences, so students learn fundamentals they can apply to current environmental issues, as well as to discover and develop ...

When the Cincinnati Bengals faced the Los Angeles Rams in the 2022 Super Bowl, Todd Cline had a lot riding on the game. Cline is the head of sustainability for the fabric care division of Procter & ...

Water is called the universal solvent for its ability to dissolve a broad range of chemicals. But you wouldn’t know that from spending time in chemistry labs, where the solvents of choice are almost ...

Water is a huge part of the earth, covering about 70 percent of the planet’s surface. Water is an essential part of every living thing on earth, and exists in three main states of matter. Solid water ...

Splitting water molecules takes more energy than calculations suggest, and is a key roadblock to cheap hydrogen fuel production. Now, scientists have discovered why. When you purchase through links on ...

Plumbed drinking water in developed countries is pretty clean, but invisible contaminants can still lurk. One mysterious “phantom chemical” has haunted drinking water for decades, and now researchers ...