The international maritime shipping industry contributes to air pollution, particularly in coastal areas and port cities. The ...

Derek Urwin has a special stake in his work as a cancer control researcher. After undergraduate studies in applied mathematics at UCLA, he became a firefighter. His inspiration to launch a second ...

These chemicals appear to evade DNA repair mechanisms, making it harder for our cells to undo the damage they cause.

A recent Lancet study links tattoos to lymphoma – a type of cancer. While once there was a lot of fear and taboo surrounding ...

carbon-containing molecule known as a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH). The discovery of pyrene in this far-off cloud, which is similar to the collection of dust and gas that eventually ...

A team led by researchers at MIT has discovered that a distant interstellar cloud contains an abundance of pyrene, a type of ...

Carbon is the building block for all life on Earth and accounts for approximately 45–50% of all dry biomass. When bonded with ...

This module uses transportation fuels as the theme to connect the organic concepts of hydrocarbon structure, intramolecular forces and physical properties to green and sustainable chemistry. The ...

Revealing its findings on Wednesday, the Consumer Council said it had found potentially carcinogenic contaminant Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in 13 of the tested samples. Popular Thai ...

There is a considerable number of hydrocarbon oils (popularly spoken of as the light hydrocarbons on account of their low specific gravity) of mineral origin. That is, whatever their original ...