IIT-Madras researchers extract silicon carbide from simulated moon soil, paving the way for lunar habitat construction.

Silicon (Si) is one of the most abundant elements on Earth, found in large quantities in soil. While Si is not essential for land plants, many plants, such as rice and grasses, have used Si to develop ...

Silicon is the backbone of the semiconductor industry, but it's also interesting in its own right. Here's why it's so ...

Silicon is key to the James Webb Space Telescope because it’s a reliable, affordable semiconductor. Its stable structure lets ...

Researchers in India have demonstrated a wet chemical process to recover silicon with high purity from end-of-life solar ...

International research team unveils the first electrically pumped continuous-wave semiconductor laser designed for seamless ...

Silicon (Si) is a metalloid, element number 14 on the periodic table. Like carbon, silicon has four bonding sites, but silicon is more than twice as heavy as carbon. The high melting point of ...

The work, from researchers in the UB Center for Advanced Semiconductor Technologies, could lead to energy-efficient ...

While silicone markets have become more balanced and less volatile since the pandemic, innovation in process know-how has ...

Transition metals have long been used as catalysts to activate small molecules and turn them into valuable products. However, ...

The party has continually found rhetoric to suggest poor people are to blame for each new crisis. When the Tea Party took over the GOP, a key frustration was that “taxpayers” were supporting a ...

A recent study found that some smartwatch bands contain perfluorohexanoic acid, one of the “forever chemicals” that is ...