Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics ...

Illustration showing a teens brain being affected by drinks, social media and cigarettes. Adolescence is a pivotal phase during the development of the brain, marked by increased plasticity. That ...

There are well documented risk factors associated with developing substance use disorder across all age groups. A recent study found those risk factors affect age groups differently and proposes a ...

Four new substances have been added to a list of chemicals that may cause cancer compiled by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The list of known carcinogens now includes a ...

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More than a third of all medicines available today are based on active substances from nature and a research team has developed a procedure to identify small active substance molecules much more ...

Editor’s Note (8/11/16): The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is announcing today that it will keep marijuana illegal for any purpose (classified as a Schedule I substance under the Controlled ...

MOSCOW, April 5. /TASS/. A device for mass spectrometers, enabling the study of selected substance in order to ascertain its composition from "four perspectives", has been developed by researchers ...