Reorganizations at the EPA may get rid of the agency’s fundamental program for research around the risks of toxic chemicals.

The American Chemical Society, the nation's leading chemistry group, agreed to replace a scholarship that excluded white and Asian applicants.

It’s one of the agency’s biggest scientific findings of the year — yet the research largely has flown under the radar after NOAA officials took steps to minimize the announcement.

LyondellBasell benefits from its cost-advantaged North American operations that use low-cost natural gas-based feedstock. By licensing its chemical ... from operations to cover its capital ...

State Key Laboratory of Precision and Intelligent Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and ...

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Caterpillars are known for their fuzzy exterior and sometimes weird behavior. Some vibrate aggressively to scare predators; others create their own antifreeze to survive the cold. But a newly ...

All around the world, from the Great Barrier Reef to the Florida Keys, the bright, vibrant colors of coral reefs have turned ghostly white in vast swaths as our planet has experienced the largest ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. People are funny about snakes. I remember being taught the rhyme, “Red touches black, you’re okay ...

Please send suggestions to Scientific American’s Mind Matters editor Daisy Yuhas dyuhas@sciam.com. This is an opinion and analysis article, and the views expressed by the author or authors are ...

The individual pearls are the repeating monomer units. The string that runs through the pearls is the chemical bond that joins the monomer units together. The entire necklace can then be thought ...

When facing an intruder, animals generally tend to fight, flee or simply freeze. But certain baby caterpillars do something else entirely: they vibrate. Newly hatched warty birch caterpillars ...