Stories by Matthew Gunther

Perovskite is a lauded new solar cell material, and high-speed images show how its atoms react to light

Plants soak up explosive chemical traces from soil, then special sensors in leaves light up

Greater taxes and trade barriers concern chemical companies

The latest additions to the periodic table honor the past

Metal hydrogen has never been seen, but if scientists make it, they'd be able to conduct electricity without resistance, or have a superfluid that defies gravity

Ups and downs of Ebola vaccines, home-brewed heroin, better solar-cell material, why lobsters turn from blue to red, and the first new class of antibiotics in years top a banner year for chemistry

New materials hold charge longer and use nontoxic, inexpensive metals

Pages of silver nanoparticles filter sludge from water and kill bacteria

Hollow cells expand and contract, which is useful for robots and medical implants

Perovskite, the new dream material for solar cells, may be too unstable to work, scientists say

The lights won 2014's Nobel Prize, but one material has crippled industry's attempts to make them

Writings thought lost in the explosion that buried Pompeii can be read with a technique related to CT scanning

A ridiculously thin sheet of carbon atoms goes under the gun (really) and shows it could be superb body armor

Acid rain in Canadian lakes is creating a takeover by jelly-covered organisms

Chemical based on shrimp protein could preserve famous wooden ships like the Mary Rose