Using ocean current models and chemical analysis, a team explains how oily material managed to travel over 5,200 miles (8,500 ...

The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) is proud to announce that Environmental Health Perspectives ...

Science shapes every part of our lives, but so much of its influence is overlooked or buried in the past. Tiny Matters is an award-winning podcast about tiny things — from molecules to microbes — that ...

A study reports that, around the world, wildfires and prescribed burns could emit substantially more gases, including ones that contribute to air pollution, than previously thought.

Microplastics have been found almost everywhere that scientists have looked for them. Now, according to research published in the ACS partner journal Environment & Health, these bits of plastic — from ...

Designated August 29, 2013, at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Western Regional Research Center in Albany, California. Flavor is caused by receptors in the mouth and ...

On June 3, 1947, on the campus of Columbia University in New York City, a young chemistry student from Queens received her Ph.D. At the time, she didn’t know she was making history. Working with Mary ...

Izaak Maurits Kolthoff (1894–1993) has been described as the father of modern analytical chemistry for his research and teaching that transformed the ways by which scientists separate, identify, and ...

Mountains of used plastic bottles get thrown away every day, but microbes could potentially tackle this problem. Now, researchers in ACS Central Science report that they’ve developed a plastic-eating ...

The fellows program began in 2009 to recognize and honor ACS members for outstanding achievements in and contributions to science, the profession and ACS. Nominations for the 2026 class of ACS Fellows ...

Electronic textiles, such as heating pads and electric blankets, can keep the wearer warm and help ease aches and pains. However, prolonged use of these devices could cause heat-related illnesses, ...

Waking up with a pimple is no longer cause for panic, thanks to pimple patches — small, sticker-like bandages that cover and help heal the unwanted zit. A team of researchers publishing in ACS Applied ...