A component of rocket fuel that has been linked to serious health issues shouldn’t be in your drinking water or food. Yet new tests by Consumer Reports have found that the chemical perchlorate—which ...

Converting petroleum into fuels involves crude chemistry first invented by humans in the 1800s. Meanwhile, bacteria have been producing carbon-based energy molecules for billions of years. Which do ...

Some experts are raising a red flag after a component in rocket fuel was detected in food. Perchlorate, which is also found in missiles, airbags, explosives, and some types of plastic, was spotted in ...

Back in 1928. Kansas City Chemist J. C. Patrick stirred up a gummy mess of sulphur, carbon and hydrogen in an attempt to find a better, cheaper antifreeze. What he got was not antifreeze but one of ...