Here's a new way to discover chemical reactions

It's not every day you find a new chemical reaction. A novel approach could help us pick up the pace, thanks to a clever method and a smart Excel spreadsheet. Chemists have learned a lot over the last hundred years or so about what makes molecules react. But until pretty...

No, cleaning up after ourselves is not 'un-American'

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke was simply wrong when he called conservation efforts "un-American" during his keynote speech at the Western Governors' Association meeting recently. He was criticizing compensatory mitigation, a prudent and well-accepted environmental protection...

Pesticides are harming bees — but not everywhere, major new study shows

In the global debate over neonicotinoid pesticides, the company that makes most of them has relied on one primary argument to defend its product: The evidence that these chemicals, commonly called "neonics," are harmful to bees...