The late 1960s and early 1970s was an increasingly tumultuous time in the US, both socially and professionally, with issues like the environment, women’s rights, Watergate, and the Vietnam War ...

Artisanal miners use mercury because it is simple. When mercury is mixed with ore, it binds with the gold, creating an ...

C&EN assistant editor Fionna Samuels discusses the steps taken by schools in Boston and Colorado to monitor and control air ...

To color these pieces of silk with aniline blue dye, Gracile Roxas had to do her homework. Roxas, a textile conservator who ...

When frostbitten limbs warm up again, blood rushes back into the tissue. With that blood come compounds such as histamines ...

How these tiny particles may harm our health is unclear, but scientists are alarmed by what they are finding so far ...

Coprolites—fossilized feces—from the Jurassic hold traces of past meals. These deposits left by a herbivorous dinosaur ...

“Past studies on rock weathering have measured how the weathering process affects carbon capture, but they’ve overlooked the ...

Algenesis submerged shoes made with its biodegradable polyurethane foam in the Pacific Ocean to demonstrate their ...

At the risk of going dormant under incoming US president Donald J. Trump, the Loan Programs Office (LPO) of the US Department ...

Microplastics are everywhere, from the tallest mountains to the deepest depths of the ocean. Where do they come from, and how ...

In Niterói, scientists note thousands of dengue cases averted in 2024—a record year for infections elsewhere in Brazil ...