Are students inspired to go into physics because of a television show like "The Big Bang Theory"?  Probably not, or else 60% of America would be cops and lawyers. But chemistry has a bad…

I just now dug up this from the Science Codex:   Milestone: A methane-metal marriage relating how the group of Lucy Ziurys at the University of Arizona have found a promising new way of making…

Chemistry space refers to the combinatorial and configurational space spanned by all possible molecules (i.e. those combination of atoms allowed by the rules of valence in energetically stable…

There are rules in making presentations to people - in wine sales, for example, as we outlined in The Science Of Wine And Cheese, you buy on bread and sel on cheese because eating cheese is the way…

I was catching up on chemistry news over the lunch hour and discovered this little gelatinous gem:New Strategy for Expression of Recombinant Hydroxylated Human-Derived Gelatin in Pichia pastoris…

Industry does quite a lot of basic research today but government funds the majority.  Prior to and during World War II those ratios were inverted and the private sector funded most basic…

In the weekend science category, Yogen Fruz has announced, based on findings found by Proteste.org and reported in O Globo, that they are officially the only frozen yogurt brand based on the new…

A combination of forest byproducts and crustacean shells may be the key to removing radioactive materials from drinking water, researchers from North Carolina State University have found.The new…

Scientists are launching a three-pronged attack on one of the most obstinate puzzles in materials sciences: what is the pseudogap? They used three complementary experimental approaches to investigate…

In the days of yore, organic chemistry was considered a branch of science that dealt with endless interactions involving carbon atoms as atomic and molecular interactive forces were not understood.…