This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. In the Mon Valley of western Pennsylvania, steel was once a way of life, one synonymous with the image of ...

As the world moves toward hydrogen-powered societies, one major challenge remains: storing and releasing hydrogen efficiently. Sodium borohydride (SBH) is a promising hydrogen storage material that ...

Mars is a large enough planet that astrobiologists looking for life need to narrow the parameters of the search to those environments most conducive to habitability. NASA's Mars Curiosity mission is ...

Researchers in Japan have developed an inexpensive, high-performance catalyst for hydrogen storage using a modified form of ‘green rust,’ a common iron hydroxide mineral. The work, conducted at the ...

The world's primary economic source of iron ore, iron formations, are ancient sedimentary rocks that appear as solid as rocks can be. How did they get to be like that? According to researchers, it has ...

A rare and highly reactive iron mineral called green rust appears to have played an important role in ancient oceans, suggest new findings, which may have implications for the formation of Earth’s ...

In the Mon Valley of western Pennsylvania, steel was once a way of life, one synonymous with the image of rural, working-class Rust Belt communities. At its height in 1910, Pittsburgh alone produced ...