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Researchers studying birds and the food they eat are now finding much larger volumes of the toxic PFAS chemicals than before.

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Rubies and emeralds have the colors they do because, like many substances, they absorb some colors of light. Most visible light, like sunlight, is composed of all the colors of the rainbow: red, ...

New research on microplastics in brains reminds us that while scientists compile safety data, our leaders should still act ...

A-level grade boundaries are one source of dissatisfaction for chemistry educators The UK’s chemistry curricula have recently fallen under scrutiny with the publication of the Royal Society of ...

Your parents may be right: Get some sleep and you’ll feel better in the morning, according to new research. “Our study suggests that people’s mental health and wellbeing could fluctuate over ...

Investigating the colors of compounds containing transition metals leads you into some really amazing science – that’s part of what drew me to study this field ... scientists can explain why rubies ...

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

These meals allowed us to develop a meal plan that could be tested in a strictly controlled study in healthy Canadian adults. We saw remarkable results including weight loss (although participants ...

So what’s so bad about booze, exactly? After you drink any kind of booze—vodka, wine, sake, you name it—enzymes in your body get to work metabolizing the alcohol (chemically known as ethanol ...

"The thing that really struck me was the study's approach," she said. "It's looking at the positive effects, why you survive as opposed to why you get ill, which is the normal default setting for ...