Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann may have invented LSD in the 1930s, and Timothy Leary was clearly its most prominent frontman in the 1960s. But Nicholas Sand was the chemist who created the most famous...

Massachusetts' highest court has formally approved the dismissal of more than 21,000 drug convictions that were tainted by the misconduct of a former state drug lab chemist...

Making his first official visit to Washington since taking office in 2014, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's meeting this week with U.S. President Donald Trump would be a significant step in the international r...

The chief U.S. State Department counter-narcotics official is hailing a pending U.N. move to control substances used to make a deadly synthetic drug, but acknowledges it will not put an immediate dent...

George A. Olah, whose work won a Nobel Prize in chemistry and paved the way for more effective oil refining and ways of producing less polluting forms of gasoline, has died at 89...

A North Korean chemist deported from Malaysia has accused police of threatening to kill his family unless he confessed to the murder of the half-brother of North Korea's leader, calling it a plot to t...

A crowdfunding campaign for $1 million to finance "Beyond the Elements" for PBS' science series "Nova" launched Tuesday...

The independent panel that sets federal sentencing policy is studying how courts should handle cases involving synthetic drugs...

The highest court in Massachusetts has rejected a proposal for the mass dismissal of 24,000 drug convictions because of misconduct by a former state chemist...