Chemicals & Chemistry

Americans often make lemonade from lemons, it is part of our culture. Whereas when Europeans see a nice car, their culture often thinks in the vein of 'Why should they have a nice car?

When environmental activists discovered that it was bad optics to be opposed to natural gas, because it lowered the CO2 emissions they insisted must be lowered drastically or else the apocalypse was nigh, they changed tactics.

Rachel Carson, who was born on May 27, 1907, and launched the modern environmental movement with her 1962 book “Silent Spring,” was a highly private person.

There's a lot of money to be made in kowtowing to the latest dietary fads and unsubstantiated health scares.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency has moved to place a ban on methylene chloride (dichlorome

Bacteria come in two very broad categories based on the structure of their cell walls, the outer region that gives the cells shape and integrity.

Here's a chemical that you don't want to screw around with: sulfuric acid. The only thing good about it is that it is not volatile. The only thing bad about it is everything else.

With all due respect to government officials and their decades of well-intentioned effort to reverse algae bloom, it's now the private sector's time, led by ingenious researchers, to tackle this ever-expanding crisis.

Humans like to do something. We go to war on cancer, we battle it, we seek to defeat it.

I've been a science writer and editor for nearly eight years. During this time, I've learned a few things.