Synthetic dyes made fashion more vivid, like this hot pink miniskirt suit, designed by Ben Zuckerman in 1964. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would ...

Doritos are a revered snack for many. Now, scientists have found one of the ingredients in the triangle-shaped tasty tortilla chips has a superpower – it can make the skin of mice transparent.

Fluorescent dyes are tools used throughout biotechnology and medicine that offer a unique method of detecting and quantifying the presence of a target molecule, cell, or tissue within an even more ...

Dish soap on a Q-tip breaks the surface tension causing food coloring to move away from it creating a tie dye pattern. Keep the learning going over the summer with this tie dye milk science experiment ...

Hey, the water look funny to you? Researchers from the University of California San Diego have conducted the first stage in a series of experiments that involve dying immense quantities of seawater ...

What do Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, lime Jell-O, and Kraft Creamy French Salad dressing have in common? They’ve all gotten a glow-up from artificial food dyes. Petroleum-based food dyes have become a target ...

The Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday that it plans to phase out petroleum-based food dyes from the nation’s food supply. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, has called the ...