The volatility and flammability of jet fuel means the oil spill should be short-lived; long-term environmental impact is ...

Lila Sciences has secured $200 million in seed funding from Flagship Pioneering, which incubated the company, and General ...

North Carolina chemist receives award for discoveries that will help address climate, energy, and health challenges ...

US Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directs the Food and Drug Administration to explore revamping ...

Researchers have received atypical questions from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other agencies ...

That sweeping rule is aimed at reducing the frequency and severity of accidents at nearly 11,740 US chemical plants, warehouses, storage sites, and other facilities. According to the EPA, about 131 ...

The spheres fall apart and release their cargo in acidic environments, such as those found inside tumors (Macromol. Rapid ...

The biosurfactant makers Dispersa and AGAE Technologies are each scaling up production in moves that together will add more ...

The applied physicist explains how the structure of 52,000-year-old genes hint at the biology of an extinct animal ...

Erucamide, a fatty acid amide produced by plants, has antibacterial properties and may be useful as an ecofriendly pesticide ...

As we age, things don’t quite work the way they used to. Now Stanford researchers have identified how the breakdown of a sugary layer in the blood vessels that feed the brain could result in ...

Scientists and public health experts are sounding the alarm over plans by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to fund a study on whether there's a causal link between vaccines and ...