Jeffery Long, professor of chemistry and chemical and bimolecular engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues have devised a space-efficient natural-gas tank that can store the same amount of gas as bulky conventional tanks at a much lower pressure.

A breakthrough in the Paris climate talks suddenly seemed possible a year ago, after President Obama and Chinese Premier Xi Jinping — representing the world's biggest polluters — pl

It's amazing how quickly the falling price of solar and wind power has shifted the global energy consensus.

Isabel Escobar, professor of chemical and materials engineering at the University of Kentucky, looks at solutions inspired by nature that can help the world face the growing clean-water shortage.