Spruce bark beetles don’t just tolerate their host tree’s chemical defenses—they actively reshape them into stronger ...

Traces of a toxic chemical found on 60,000-year-old arrowheads hint at advanced planning by Palaeolithic hunters.

UC Davis researchers have developed a new method that uses light to transform amino acids—the building blocks of ...

Chemistry is often presented as one of the most advanced sciences, yet its day-to-day practice remains surprisingly manual.

Peculiar 60,000-year-old Stone Age arrowheads unearthed in South Africa could be the earliest known use of poison-laced ...

Stone Age arrowheads found in South Africa showcase the knowledge and strategy of prehistoric hunter-gatherers, according to ...

Muntjac deer are known as “vampire deer” for their fangs, but their strangest feature lies beneath their eyes.

As regulatory pressure increases, chemical companies are turning to AI to identify and replace PFAS and other restricted ...

Previously published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), EHP was one of the few peer-reviewed ...

Scientists may have found a safer way to make cells burn more calories—by turning up the heat inside our cellular power plants.

New chemical analysis of quartz microliths from South Africa confirms that humans were skilled with poison long ago.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have synthesised for the first time a complex fungal compound known as verticillin A, discovered more than 50 years ago and long viewed ...