Chemicals & Chemistry

By Dr. Michael Dourson and Dr. Bernard Gadagbui

A group from the University of Arizona has come up with something that sounds like it belongs in a science fiction movie; an easy, immediate test for norovirus – the bug that causes the "stomach flu" – using a modified smartpho

Spoiler: Stupid Alert...

Obesity. It's a big fat problem. And, as with all big fat problems, somebody else is to blame.

Because Americans have a conspiracy theory about everything, of course there's a conspiracy involving drinking water.

You might as well get pissed off in advance because if you don't much care for scientific evidence you're not going to enjoy this a whole lot.

"Life is like a box of chocolates," Forrest Gump's mom would say. "You never know what you're going to get." The same is true for a bag of Chipotle.

Did you ever take a sip of a Diet Coke and have it taste like death (1)? Not at all sweet. Kind of sour-metallic-motor oil-rotting corpse-tasting?

One of the many fascinating aspects of organic chemistry is how seemingly different reactions work in the same exact way.

Last month, we discussed the risks associated with traveling to the Dominican Republic, where nine Americans died under mysterious circumstances.