Call it the anti-sunscreen. That's more or less the description of what many solar energy researchers would like to find -- light-catching substances that could be added to photovoltaic materials in ...

A new approach for activating chemical reactions based on the element selenium has been tested by scientists. They demonstrated that selenium can form bonds similar to those of hydrogen bonds, ...

Selenium is a group 16 element with the atomic number 34. It is a metalloid and shares several of its properties with oxygen and sulfur, which are the most well-known members of this group. Jons Jakob ...

A federal appeals court ruled this morning that the Clean Water Act shielded a coal mining company from liability for releases of the chemical element selenium. This story was updated at 5:36 p.m. EST ...

Breast cancer is regarded as the third most common malignancy in humans and the second, after skin cancer, in women (Greenlee et al, 2000). Approximately, 150 000 women in the United States of America ...

Higher maternal selenium levels during pregnancy were associated with a lower risk of streptococcal infections in children, suggesting a potential protective effect. Scientists from Hokkaido ...