Researchers have developed a sponge-like material with long, microscopic air pockets that uses sunlight and a simple plastic ...

A chemistry hobbyist, Piscataway High School senior Arya Patel often performs experiments for fun—like this colorful one. Arya crafted a “majestic sea of copper” by carefully adding ammonia ...

Online job boards were supposed to usher in massive changes in the way life science companies recruit talent. Change came. But executive search veteran Jeffrey Clark argues it wasn’t for the ...

Algae grown under Mars-like conditions could make bioplastic building materials for structures to harbor life in space.

According to a VCU spokesperson, Oliver Hall along West Main Street was evacuated at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday after a chemical spill caused by a beaker in a microwave.

With ‘beaker mugs’ and icicles, ... “Brian is a key member of the department, and a rare one; few chemistry departments across the country have full-time glassblowers,” says Dr. Laurel Schafer, head ...

Tabletop Exercise 6: Chemistry Teacher Drops Beaker Containing Mercury Traces of mercury were found in school hallways and in the homes of students who were in the classroom at the time of the ...

All you're doing is putting them in the same beaker. Chemistry will take its course from there … or not. — Throw Away Expectations. Skip to end of carousel. About Carolyn Hax ...

It was so tough I had to smash the beaker to get it out. Furthermore, when it sat in dilute acid overnight, it reverted to its precursor materials. Without meaning to, I had discovered a whole new ...

Most of the water on Earth is salty ocean water—not suitable for drinking. While desalination plants can remove the salt and make seawater drinkable, they use a lot of energy and expensive equipment.

Once one of the most difficult colors to recreate in paint, blue was only available to medieval artists, for example, by grinding up the prized stone known as lapis lazuli. By the 1900s, it was still ...

A solution-phase technique to make multimetallic nanocrystals of high structural complexity has been developed by assistant chemistry professor Raymond E. Schaak and his group at Texas A&M ...