Oil refining is necessary for transforming raw, unusable crude oil into valuable goods like gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and ...

Scientists in China have developed a smart coating that could make it easier to remove tritium (a radioactive form of hydrogen) from nuclear power plant wastewater.

Existing water desalination techniques such as reverse osmosis are however energy intensive and at their energy efficiency limit (~50 percent). Researchers are therefore keen to use low-cost and ...

A man drinking a glass of whisky. Image by Tim Sandle. A man drinking a glass of whisky. Image by Tim Sandle. Terroir is term derived from the French language, where it is used to describe the ...

Making quantum computers fault-tolerant (and scaling effective error correction to enable this) is a key barrier to a new era of quantum supremacy. A new study ...