It’s rare, but not impossible. Static electricity, the same thing that shocks you when you touch a doorknob, could ignite gasoline fumes when pumping fuel at a gas station. Without taking the proper ...

If you’ve ever left the house only to wonder whether you turned off the stove or unplugged your curling iron, you’re not alone. However, this uncertainty doesn’t have to be your destiny. In Japan, ...

Heterogeneous catalysis—in which catalysts and reactants are of different phases, e.g., solid and gas—is important to many industrial processes and often involves solid metal as the catalyst. Ammonia ...