VOCs, or volatile organic compounds, are compounds that contain carbon atoms and that, at room temperature, easily evaporate. Too small to see and virtually omnipresent both indoors and out, they can ...

Stumbling upon a new source of underwater caffeine was just an added bonus of a new study examining the impact of chemical compounds that corals release into the seawater. Stumbling upon a new source ...

Chemistry is all around us. From the widespread production of global food supplies to the metabolism that fuels the tiniest of microorganisms, everything in our surroundings is produced and controlled ...

Microplastics in rivers, lakes, and oceans aren’t just drifting debris—they’re constantly leaking invisible clouds of ...

There is a large diversity in the chemical composition of astronomical objects such as planets, comets, circumstellar envelopes, or galactic gas clouds. One great challenge in astrochemistry is to ...

Dedicated June 14, 2007, at the Chemical Abstracts Service in Columbus, Ohio. One of Noyes's most important legacies was his insistence that Chemical Abstracts cover applied as well as theoretical ...

Martin Clasby receives funding from the National Institutes of Health and Michigan Drug Discovery. Modern drug discovery is an expensive and complicated process. Hundreds of scientists and at least a ...