Nearly 17% of the world’s croplands are contaminated with “heavy metals”, according to a new study in Science. These ...

Physicists propose that high-energy photon jets from collapsing stars may be secret factories of heavy elements like ...

Up to 17 percent of the planet’s agricultural land may be contaminated by toxic heavy metals, a new study has found. As many as 1.4 billion people reside in areas with soil dangerously polluted ...

Some 460 million metric tons of plastic are produced globally each year, out of which a staggering 91% of plastic waste is ...

The medicines are expensive and aren’t usually available outside of health care facilities because they are administered intravenously and can cause severe allergic reactions. This can mean long ...

Mercury ions are the most frequent potential allergens that induce a cell-mediated DTH reaction. Other metals (including copper, zinc, palladium, cobalt, and tin) have also been implicated in ...

The willingness of the 4f orbitals of lanthanide metals to participate in chemical reactions is as rare as ... Lanthanides are heavy, rare-earth metallic elements, occupying positions 57 through ...

Most information regarding putative sensitivity reactions to endovascular, cardiovascular, orthopedic, and dental metal implants are based either on anecdotal case reports or on data gathered from ...