Yesterday President Trump's EPA announced new appointments to its Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals, the expert panel that peer-reviews the agency's chemical risk evaluations under the Toxic ...

For most of scientific history, chemical elements were identified through materials that could be handled, heated, weighed or ...

An entirely new class of super-reactive chemical compounds has been discovered under atmospheric conditions. Researchers have documented the formation of so-called trioxides -- an extremely oxidizing ...

NIST has added tens of thousands of new items to its largest library of chemical fingerprints, now totaling hundreds of thousands of compounds. Researchers and manufacturers rely on the library to ...

When you think about dangerous substances, what comes to mind? Perhaps a snake’s venom or a toxic mushroom? While nature certainly produces some terrifying compounds, humanity has managed to create ...

Chemical Abstracts Service — an American Chemical Society publication known simply as CAS since a 2021 rebranding — curates and analyzes published science worldwide on new chemical substances or new ...

The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) is the primary set of regulatory guidelines used by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to review chemicals intended for commercial use and determine ...