NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to mathematician Eugenia Cheng about the Pascaline -- a 17th-century invention credited as the first mechanical calculator.

Everyday items like car tires, plastic bags and foam cushions come from materials called polymers that can take years to ...

Traditionally, chemical reactions have been described as one-line "equations" in which substrates, say A and B, convert purposefully but rigidly into a desired product, say C. Naturally, it has been ...

Reactions that sever typically unreactive carbon-hydrogen bonds, known as C–H activations, are a well-studied staple of organic chemistry. So it’s a well-known fact that palladium-based catalysts tend ...

This third in the series of five articles curated by Adrián Fuente-Ballesteros of the Faculty of Sciences at University of Valladolid (Spain)focuses on the blue dimension of white analytical chemistry ...