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Vitamin supplements -- taken by millions of Americans to boost or maintain their health -- don't reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes or breast cancer, according to two large studies published today. In one of the trials, 14,641 middle-aged male...

Vitamin supplements - taken by millions of Americans to boost or maintain their health - don't reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes or breast cancer, according to two large studies published today. In trial, 14,641 middle-age male physicians took...

A sweet stench filled the site in occupied Poland where chemical-maker I.G. Farbenindustrie AG was building a factory to feed Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's tanks and bombers with synthetic rubber and fuel during World War II. Amid the hammering, barking...

Second of two parts To a chemist, chlorine is the perfect compound. Easily combining with other elements and molecules, chlorine is transformed into new classes of chemicals with an endless array of uses. It disinfects water, cleans clothes, kills bugs,...

First of two parts At first, the experimental shampoo looked like a putrid salad dressing. Its oil and its water just couldn't get along. They separated in the bottle and, over time, the shampoo took on an ugly brown hue. The team at Avalon Organics,...

JAMES CITY -- A consultant hired to study the business climate in James City places the county at a crucial point in its development. Within 25 years most of the developable land will have been built out. At the same time, emerging patterns of growth...

SHANGHAI — As the recall of tainted pet food mushroomed into an international scandal, two of the largest U.S. food manufacturers put out a blanket order to their American suppliers: No more ingredients from China. The directive from Mission...

Q: Would you please comment on Dow Chemical Co.? We've been pleased with this holding but the stock has experienced some recent volatility. -- E.P., Mt. Dora, Fla. A: The world's second-largest chemical company, behind Germany's BASF AG, is cinching its...

More than two decades after one of Queens' most polluted industrial sites was abandoned, its troubling toxic legacy remains in the ground with no guarantee of a cleanup anytime soon. Quanta Resources, a company that processed and recycled waste oils,...