Flame retardants, plasticizers, and "forever" chemicals are common in household items like cookware and cosmetics. But these ...

nside electrochemical devices, strong electric fields dramatically alter how water molecules behave. New research shows that these fields speed up water dissociation not by lowering energy costs, but ...

Theoretical and computational chemistry (TCC) is a set of theories and models that, over the years, were refined to the point that it is possible to determine measurable quantities with precision, ...

For over a century, the well-known 18-electron rule has guided the field of organometallic chemistry. Now, researchers at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have successfully ...

The film "The Colloidal State" explores the concept of colloids, which are materials in a dispersion where small particles of one substance are distributed throughout another. It distinguishes ...

Thinking about what draws you to your romantic partner (now, or in the past), how easily could you put this into words? Try as you might, you can’t narrow it down to personality (similar to yours, or ...

It may seem easy to distinguish whether something is alive or not. You are alive, as is your teacher, and the trees you see on your way to school. Your desk and chair are not alive, and neither are ...

You've got to love a chemistry book whose preface draws comparisons to "The Joy of Cooking" and "The Joy of Sex." What does "The Joy of Chemistry: The Amazing Science of Familiar Things," by Cathy ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

The amyloid theory of Alzheimer’s disease originates from Alois Alzheimer’s 1906 post-mortem analysis of a woman’s brain and the hallmark plaques and tangles it contained. In the decades since, ...