Chemicals & Chemistry

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.

The chemistry of gasoline is not as simple as you'd think.

French President Emmanuel Macron has declared he will ban the American herbicide glyphosate within three years, and sooner if a replacement is ready.

It's not an uncommon situation faced by farmers: using additives to boost crop production, which then generates an unwanted problem down the line.

A recent editorial in JAMA Marijuana, Secondhand Smoke, and Social Acceptability begins by remarking on “The cloud of secondhand marijuana smoke” vis