The proposal outlines more stringent protections for workers at risk of breathing in the chemical in its powdered form.

Throughout human civilization, pigments have been vital to artistic expression, yet many of these vibrant shades—such as red, ...

This discovery led to the launch of the Poison Book Project, a crowdsourced research effort that uses X-ray fluorescence (XRF ...

See the complete list. For John Sabraw ’97 MFA, painting is about both aesthetics and activism. The 45-year-old artist and professor at Ohio University has become well known for his “Toxic Art” — ...

This tiny fleck of paint, taken from the “Mona Lisa” is revealing insights into previously unknown steps of the artists’ process. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

Unlike traditional pigments that absorb specific wavelengths of light, these natural materials use microscopic structures to split light into different colors. This "structural color" approach creates ...

The latest research used a technique not previously applied to books to assess a university collection, finding that some Victorian-era volumes had possibly unsafe levels of toxic pigments. This ...