Christian Picciolini has spent the past several years trying to reform white supremacists through a group called the Free Radicals Project. The nonprofit was born from Picciolini's own experience as a ...

If you’ve ever wondered why health experts, nutritionists, and even your wellness-savvy friends keep raving about antioxidants, you’re not alone. It may sound like just another health buzzword, but ...

You may have heard that antioxidants are an important part of your diet – but what are they and what do they do? Generally, antioxidants balance out something called oxidants or free radicals, which ...

When I write about heart disease or stroke, a central theme is the importance of oxygen. This is because the heart and brain are relentlessly active and in need of energy supplied by reactions that ...

One of the central challenges for synthetic chemists is to impose control over free radicals. Highly reactive molecules with an unpaired electron, free radicals may be familiar to you; these are the ...

You may have heard about oxidative stress on social media. A TikTok search offers dozens of videos that claim to break down the complex chemical process and, in some instances, offer up “treatments” ...

We're so excited to present our favorite story of the week from our friends at Well+Good! Free radicals are to our era what “non-comedogenic” was to the 1990s: a buzzword everyone happily bandies ...

Smoking cigarettes can lead to illness and death. Free radicals, which are atoms or groups of atoms with unpaired electrons, in inhaled smoke are thought to be partly responsible for making smokers ...

George A. F. Hendry, William E. Finch-Savage, P. Christopher Thorpe, Neil M. Atherton, Sarah M. Buckland, Katrina A. Nilsson and Wendy E. Seel Loss of moisture in mature seeds of Quercus robur L. was ...