A new study published in Nature Microbiology has reported a naturally occurring family of bacterial species in the human gut ...

It’s not uncommon nowadays to fill a glass of water from your tap and wonder what chemicals and contaminants may be lurking in there. That’s because research has increasingly revealed that heavy ...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed an environmentally safer type of plastic that can be used for ...

A team from the Colorado School of Mines is leading research at Peterson Space Force Base this summer to evaluate technologies that remove forever chemicals from sediment. For years, forever chemicals ...

Cambridge scientists have spotted gut bacteria that greedily soak up PFAS “forever chemicals,” then ferry them safely out of ...

"Forever chemicals" or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been widely used in consumer and industrial products ...

Bulky molecules mimic some properties of PFAS without their long-lasting chemical bonds and could replace PFAS in some water-repelling applications.

Scientists have demonstrated that select human gut bacteria can bioaccumulate and sequester PFAS ‘forever chemicals’, ...

Researchers can modify the chemical structure of beta-cyclodextrin to target a wide range of pollutants, including pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and heavy metals.

In “They Poisoned the World,” investigative journalist Mariah Blake writes about the campaign to hide the dangers of forever chemicals.

‘Forever chemicals’ self-assemble into stable structures resembling biological cells — a behaviour that could help to explain why they stick around for decades in the soil or groundwater 1 ...