The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

CALCIUM carbonate can exist in three polymorphic forms, which in the order of their usual stabilities are calcite, aragonite and vaterite. Calcite is the most stable and the least soluble ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the ...

The museum team was especially surprised to find traces of water-bearing sodium carbonate compounds, commonly known as soda ash, in the Bennu sample. These chemicals have never been found in ...

Further still, another danger has arisen from the wildfires—large amounts of inhalable, airborne lead. The tragedies vividly remind us how lead, a neurotoxin, can still present in communities ...

I became curious whether the large flower design that drew me to the plates could have been created with lead paint, given the fact that the dishes seem somewhat old and lead paint was officially ...