Chemicals & Chemistry

A February 23rd, 2018 statement from the U.S Food and Drug Administration about bisphenol A (BPA) should come as no surprise to anyone who has read our work.

An article published in Science on volatile chemicals has predictably entered the mainstream media featuring concerns about how we are polluting our planet more and more with household products.

Last week, international media outlets reported that asparagus causes cancer. It does not.

New research from Transylvania (that's part of Romania for you non-Dracula aficionados) is all over the news.

A judge in California is going to determine whether or not coffee causes cancer.

It has been a tough decade for the honeybee; first they were suddenly dying due to something called Colony Collapse Disorder and wh

For those of you who have deluded yourselves into believing that you can eat a natural, "chemical-free" diet and live to be 2 million years old, I hate to burst your bubble.

The periodic table of the elements is logical. Sometimes. For example, as you go from the top (light elements) to the bottom of the table (heavy elements) the atoms get larger and (usually) rarer.

From the CityLab website:

Barbara Demeneix, a team leader at The Paris Natural History Museum, certainly has credentials. She earned a Ph.D.