Imagine leaving your shiny metal bicycle outside in the rain. As water pools on its surfaces, oxygen from the air lingers nearby, and together they begin to quietly attack the metal. The iron in the ...

A common iron mineral hiding in soil turns out to be far better at trapping carbon than scientists realized. Its surface ...

The Moon, long thought to be a barren and unchanging celestial body, is now showing a surprising and puzzling phenomenon: rusting. Scientists have recently discovered that oxygen particles from Earth ...

Planetary scientists have discovered that the Moon is rusting. Research indicates the presence of hematite—a form of rust that normally requires oxygen and water—on the lunar surface. But while water ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are helping to enable the next generation of abundant, affordable nuclear energy by combining 80 years of know-how with the ...