The recipe makes fluffy cake because of a chemical reaction between baking soda and vinegar. I asked my friend Mary Fennimore about chemical reactions. She teaches chemistry at Washington State ...

This volume is packed full of new chemistry-fueled solutions for everyday problems, like spotting rotten eggs, reviving soggy green vegetables and fixing busted buttons.

Penn State researchers have uncovered a surprising twist in a foundational chemical reaction known as oxidative addition. Typically believed to involve transition metals donating electrons to organic ...

Bacteria munching on waste bread release hydrogen that could run chemical reactions, providing a carbon-negative way to ...

The reaction generates amino acids and nucleic acids, the building blocks of proteins and DNA. Four billion years ago, the Earth looked very different than it does today, devoid of life and covered by ...

Sunlight hits tiny particles of plastic floating in a clear water solution. Slowly, they begin to disappear, leaving behind a ...

A pair of seniors at Natick High School have written a children’s chemistry book aimed at making science more accessible and fun for younger students. Michael Coppellotti and Addisyn Yaskis, both 17, ...

Click reactions—the subject of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry—come in many forms, but they all share a few key features. Namely, click chemistry forges new chemical bonds quickly, selectively, and ...

The Donnelly Research Group at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, UK) has published a compelling case study highlighting significant operational and scientific advantages when performing parallel ...

This volume is packed full of new chemistry-fueled solutions for everyday problems. This volume is packed full of new chemistry-fueled solutions for everyday problems, like spotting rotten eggs, ...