A new way to evaluate quinones — a class of compounds found in natural materials such as soil, water, wildfire ashes — is proposed in a research paper by Engineering grad student Anil Timilsina, ...

A new study shows that during drought, it's not how hot or how dry it is that determines gas emissions from plants—but how ...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), often referred to as “forever chemicals,” are a very diverse set of organic chemical compounds ...

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) begin to accumulate in the tissues of mammals already during the fetal stage, according ...

Water is called the universal solvent for its ability to dissolve a broad range of chemicals. But you wouldn’t know that from spending time in chemistry labs, where the solvents of choice are almost ...

Organic chemist Bruce Lipshutz had a bit of a rude awakening. It was around 2007, and the head of environmental health and safety (EH&S) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, sat Lipshutz ...

Researchers from The University of Osaka created a reagent for important building-block molecules with an abundant main-group element, gallium. These early findings show that an organic gallium ...