Chemistry sets used to be awesome. Today, a lot of them suck. But the kit pictured here (which, with 49 days left in its campaign, has already been successfully funded on Kickstarter) comes fully ...

The chemistry set is an icon in the toy world. It's ignited entire generations of aspiring scientists, and more than a few experiments gone awry, but it wasn't an instant classic. In its 100 years on ...

Carbocation chemistry guru George A. Olah started a fire in the basement with his. DNA amplification pioneer Kary B. Mullis set off the contents of his with a dynamite fuse from the local hardware ...

When Vassili Philippov was growing up in St. Petersburg, Russia, in the 1980s, he received a chemistry set as a gift. He used it a few times, but then it got pushed to the back of a shelf, never to be ...

A Stanford researcher reinvents the chemistry set completely in the form of an inexpensive gizmo modeled after a hand-crank music box. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news ...

The BenchMark Legacy Chemicals kit on Kickstarter lets kids unleash the awesome power of chemistry without watering down the experience. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news ...

We try not to share too many crowd funding projects, but when a tipster sent us to this Heirloom Chemistry Set we knew some would-be chemistry hackers might just want to see it! [John Farrell Kuhns] ...

Chemistry sets were the original hardware hacker’s cookbook, teaching kids about the modular nature of matter in ways that would be consistent with today’s homebrew projects and mashups. But safety ...

As a boy growing up in India, Manu Prakash once undertook a DIY pyrotechnics experiment that didn't quite go as planned. He managed to start a fire and burn his hand. "I had an extreme chemistry ...

If you would like to teach your children more about physics, chemistry and biology you may be interested in the Quantum STEM Set, designed to provide the ultimate chemistry set for your learning needs ...

We try not to share too many crowd funding projects, but when a tipster sent us to this Heirloom Chemistry Set we knew some would-be chemistry hackers might just want to see it! [John Farrell Kuhns] ...