Oddly enough, many lead compounds have a sweet taste. One of the most famous ones is probably lead acetate. It is highly ...

Hydrogen bonds, best known for holding water molecules and biological structures together, are now shown to play a powerful role in solar energy conversion. In a study published in National Science ...

First produced by French chemist Louis Jacques Thénard in 1818, hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2) has many uses. The chemical industry produces over 5 million tonnes of H 2 O 2 per year, for products such ...

Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig are the main actors who have played James Bond in 25 or 26 movies (depending on how you count) over 64 years ...

Have the bond vigilantes finally landed in Tokyo? The yield on Japan’s 40-year government bond on Tuesday rose above 4% for the first time since Tokyo started issuing that maturity in 2007. Yields ...

U.S. Treasurys and other countries' government bonds sold off on Tuesday, as they came under pressure from deficits, debt and geopolitics. Japan's 40-year government bond yields notched a record high, ...

A man grabbed a bottle of what looked like water and took a swig. Hours later, he was in the emergency department with a life-threatening cerebral air gas embolism. The problem: It was highly ...

Stars — and their publicists — are learning that the one thing almost as good as being signed as the next 007 is being rumored for the part. By Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton, Editors Pretty much ...

The next generation of high-bandwidth memory, HBM4, was widely expected to require hybrid bonding to unlock a 16-high memory stack. A JEDEC move made that unnecessary with this generation, but it’s ...

Beneath the calm surface of the US corporate bond market, there are worrying signs about companies that could lose their investment-grade status. The first full week of the year has been one of the ...

The move, a bid to make homes more affordable, would be a back-to-future moment for the two mortgage firms. Buying risky mortgage bonds helped push them to near-bankruptcy in 2008. By Matthew ...

Contrarian investors are betting that bonds will outperform both stocks and gold in coming months. That’s because bond market-timers are highly pessimistic right now, kicking bonds out of favor. In ...