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Chemists have been worried about their image for a long time. In the words of the American Chemical Society's vision statement, chemists view themselves as "improving peoples' lives through the ...

Photography allows us to capture light as fixed images. You have probably seen many photographs in your life in all forms. They may have been print photos, pictures in magazines, or digital photos on ...

An engraved plate attributed to Augsburg printmaker Martin Engelbrecht in the early eighteenth century depicts an 18th-century engraving of a ragged, impoverished alchemist. Before he was a well-known ...

Sunlight contains an electromagnetic spectrum (special waves such as the kind in x-rays that travel through emptiness or a vacuum) of light that stretches from very short gamma rays to very long radio ...

The BYU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry celebrated National Chemistry Week with magic shows and a seminar under the theme "Picture Perfect Chemistry." Jeff Macedone is a professor in the ...

In the traditional practice of photography, the darkroom is a sacred space. Designed to accommodate the light-sensitive process of developing a photograph, darkrooms are nurseries for snapshots in ...