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

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

Aizen is using generative artificial intelligence to discover mirror peptides made entirely out of d-amino acids. Like proteins, peptides are made of amino acids, but they are shorter chains than ...

The Trust in Science and Scientists initiative began in 2023 as part of Judith Giordan’s year as president of the American Chemical Society. The initiative began with workshops and expanded in 2024 to ...

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

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Nov. 25 marks the beginning of the last meeting that the United Nations Environment Programme has scheduled to negotiate a ...

President-elect Donald J. Trump announced Friday evening that he would nominate Marty Makary to lead the FDA. Makary is a ...

As microplastics have multiplied, so have the studies quantifying them. And across all those studies, plastics researchers ...