Heart disease is still the number one cause of death around the world. Millions of people die each year from heart attacks ...

Ten years ago, scientists were convinced that a combination of manganese and gallium nitride could be a key material to create spintronics, the next generation of electronic devices that operate on ...

Manganese metal looks like, uh, nothing special. A shiny metal. But some of the chemical compounds that contain the element are very special. One, potassium permanganate may have been the inspiration ...

The potential health effects of manganese particles released into ambient air from vehicles burning gasoline with the controversial octane-boosting additive MMT (manganese methylcyclopentadienyl) will ...

A long-standing controversy regarding the semiconductor gallium manganese arsenide, one of the most promising materials for spintronic technology, looks to have been resolved. Researchers with the U.S ...

We know that Neanderthals used fire, but whether they started the fires or they took advantage of naturally occurring ones was a mystery. Now, researchers studying 50,000-year-old "black blocks" and ...