The Earth’s atmosphere is a complex and dynamic envelope comprised primarily of nitrogen and oxygen, with trace gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, water vapour and ozone playing outsized roles in ...

Researchers at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and the Institute of Photonic Sciences have created a Raman spectral ...

Can aircraft pollutant emissions be reduced by using biofuels? And what influence does an alternative fuel have on the formation of contrails? In mid-January, a joint German Aerospace Center (DLR) and ...

The usability of a contact lens largely depends on its design. Contact lenses need to be safe and convenient as they are in close contact with the eye and people may use them for extended periods of ...

Final battery performance can be greatly affected by deviations in chemical composition or impurities in electrode materials. Due to this, chemical composition and elemental impurity analysis are an ...

The chemical composition of a planetary body reflects its starting conditions modified by numerous processes during its formation and geological evolution. Measurements by X-ray, gamma-ray, and ...

Everyone sweats isn't it! Basically, sweat is water. It is our body's natural cooling system. In scientific form we can say that sweat is perspiration. Do you know that our body consists of around 2.6 ...

What do you do when a tried-and-true method for determining the Sun’s chemical composition appears to be at odds with an innovative, precise technique for mapping the Sun's inner structure? That was ...