Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Public Health, Colorado State University A vast number of chemicals are registered for production and use around the world ...

Purdue University scientists are unraveling the complicated toxicity of a mixture of what are often called “forever chemicals” found in many consumer products. In outdoor experiments under controlled ...

The Ames Test offered a fast and inexpensive way to identify carcinogens, leading to the banning of chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects. By Teddy Rosenbluth Bruce Nathan Ames, a biochemist ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency is failing to protect the public from a dangerous flame retardant — decabromodiphenyl ether, or decaBDE — according to a lawsuit filed this week on behalf of ...

A newly identified chemical byproduct may be present in drinking water in about a third of U.S. homes, a study found. Scientists do not yet know whether the byproduct is dangerous. But some are ...

UCLA project director Ruby Romero, left, and project manager Caitlin Molina demonstrate in September 2024 how they test street drugs. Romero and Molina are part of a team of researchers from UCLA and ...

Chemical manufacturing giant 3M will pay up ten billion dollars to help cities and towns test for and clean up toxic PFAS chemicals in public water supplies. The chemical manufacturing giant 3M will ...

Earthworm exposure to a mixture of the weed killer glyphosate and urea, used in synthetic fertilizers, experience enhanced, ...

DENVER, Aug. 18, 2024 — If you come across brightly colored, cloth-bound books from the Victorian era, you might want to handle them gently, or even steer clear altogether. Some of their attractive ...