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.

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

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

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 ...

The Angleton Library hosted the Texas A&M Chemistry Road Show, captivating children with hands-on experiments blending ...

Rama Jamal Alhashemi has yet to catch an episode of Breaking Bad. She’d like to when time permits, but she has been far too busy.

UBC glass-blower Brian Ditchburn makes beaker mugs that he sells for charity. Photo by Richard Maerov He mainly sells them through word of mouth at UBC.

Brian Ditchburn glassblower, ubc department of chemistry. Kaelin was a frequent visitor to B.C. Children’s Hospital. “Her seizures happened regularly enough that the ambulance crews knew who we were.” ...

Tracy Beaker cast haven't aged a day as they reunite nearly two decades after CBBC axed for Cardiff Comic Con on Sunday, (pictured Dani Harmer who played Tracy Beaker, (left) and Nisha Nayar ...

TRACY Beaker fans have been able to enjoy a trip down memory lane after the cast of the noughties kids show reunited. The hit CBBC series followed the life of Tracy, a 10-year-old girl who lived in… ...

NOTES: (1) Synthetic organic chemistry is a technique for converting one chemical compound to another. This is precisely what Walter White did when he converted Sudafed to methamphetamine. (2) There ...

New Beaker Committee for 2024 A warm welcome to the committee members of The Beakers, our postgraduate events society. Say hello to Kyle (President), Emma (Events), Agnes (Comms Officer), Stefanos ...