Chemistry

A new paper links lung cancer to microplastics; the tiny particles you can't detect without an electron microscope. Before you rush to the paper to see the plausible biological mechanism they found,…

Companies know to go with the political flow. It is better to help manage the process than protest just because a populist belief defies science and end up with mandates handed down by Congress that…

Nostalgia says things were always better when you were a child.  Sometimes that is objectively true. McDonald's french fries were better, for example, before shoddy epidemiology and progressive…

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, commmonly called PFAS, are about 12,000 chemicals, nearly all found in nature, and since the 1940s, a handful have been synthesized for use in various products.…

The ocean has quietly protected us from the full force of climate change. Since the industrial revolution, it has absorbed a vast amount of the carbon dioxide released by human activity. That has…

Mesothelioma should be a disease of the past. Lawyers have made fortunes targeting asbestos, a flame protector used in buildings across the country. Despite its prevalence, mesothelioma remained a…