The dispersant used to remediate the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is more toxic to cold-water corals than the spilled oil, according to a study conducted at Temple University. The study comes on the eve of the spill’s fifth anniversary, April 20.

Lysosomes are the garbage disposals of animal cells. As the resources are limited in cells, organic materials are broken down and recycled a lot — and that’s what lysosomes do. Detecting problems with lysosomes is the focus of a new set of fluorescent probes developed by researchers at Michigan Technological University. The Royal Society of Chemistry published their work in January.

Identifying where buildup comes from will lead to improved rechargeable batteries

A growing body of evidence in the medical community holds that greater diversity of bacteria and even worms in the digestive tract offers protection against a variety of allergic and autoimmune problems.

An international team of scientists releases early results from the CUORE experiment with implications for why there’s more matter than antimatter in the universe.

Findings hint that prebiotic chemistry is universal.

Let's learn a bit about cortisol in this ACS Get To Know A Molecule video

Levels of radon, a known carcinigen, rising since 2004, around the time that drilling for a new type of natural gas well began.

Bestselling author Sam Kean takes us through the nearly 2,400-year quest to see the atom in a new episode of the Reactions sub-series, “Legends of Chemistry”

Scientists are turning old CDs and DVDs into materials that could help reduce emissions of greenhouse gases