A University at Buffalo study reveals that a strain isolated from contaminated soil can break down the strong carbon-fluorine ...

As the world phases out use of PFAS-based foams in firefighting for the safer but less effective fluorine-free foams (F3), a ...

When PFAS were developed, companies found a huge number of ways to apply them to different products. But while they have ...

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

In the quest to take the "forever" out of "forever chemicals," bacteria might be our ally. Most remediation of per- and ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

To store ever more data in electronic devices of the same size, the manufacturing processes for these devices need to be ...

Smart watches have become an essential accessory for fitness tracking and health monitoring. However, a recent study by the University of Notre Dame has raised alarm about the presence of harmful ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...

Even though the town learned in July last year that perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and other organic fluorine compounds were present in local tap water, it held off making an announcement ...

The narrow, deep holes required for one type of flash memory are made twice as fast with the right recipe, which includes a plasma made from hydrogen fluoride.

Scientists from the China University of Sciences combined magnetic solid-phase extraction (MSPE) with gas chromatography–mass ...