They linger in our water, our blood, and the environment—"forever chemicals" that are notoriously difficult to detect.

Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, or DDT, was introduced as an insecticide in the 1940s. Dubbed a miracle chemical, it was initially used to ward off insect-borne diseases. The most memorable ...

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how ...

Liang Deng's group at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently discovered that a ...