Sunscreen chemicals like oxybenzone and octinoxate can harm coral reefs, marine life and waterways. There are safer sunscreen ...

Poison frogs appear to have built their chemical defenses gradually: related frogs store low to moderate levels of ...

A troubling new study from MIT reveals that a common environmental contaminant, NDMA—found in polluted water, certain medications, and even processed foods—may pose a far greater cancer risk to ...

A chemical found in water, NDMA, may cause more cancer in children than in adults, according to a study warning of early-life ...

Poison frogs are small and brightly colored amphibians that originate from Central and South America. As suggested by their ...

A striking MIT investigation highlights a disturbing threat from an unsuspected source in our homes: NDMA, a carcinogenic ...

Scientists turn plastic waste into fuel using sunlight and water in a new study that could change how we manage pollution and ...

A baby coral, freshly settled on a reef surface, faces terrible odds. Predators graze over it. Sediment smothers it. And as ocean water grows more acidic, the chemistry around it eats away at the very ...

Researchers at Yale, Google, and the University of California-Santa Barbara have created a device that simulates the quantum ...

The Curiosity Mars rover detected many organic compounds, including ones not seen before on the red planet, such as nitrogen- ...

"This experiment's never been run before on another world," said Amy Williams, an astrobiologist working on the Curiosity ...