Chemicals & Chemistry

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.

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.

A new paper in PNAS expresses concern that decades of progress in cleaning up U.S. air quality mean improvements for two pollutants have slowed in recent years.

There can be no better example of the damage done by quackery masked as "alternative medicine" than the tragic case of Chad

Last week, a day-long meeting was held at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina to discuss the resu