A team of chemical engineers have discovered what may be the "ancestral Eve" crystal that billions of years ago gave life on Earth its curious and exclusive preference for so-called left-handed…

By Ladd (DePaul University student) Have you ever broke a bone before and did it take multiple months for it to heal? Did you wish that there was a way that you could just "glue" it back together so…

Ethanol is used to make alcohol, distillation of the mixture leads to the isolation of pure ethanol, a good alternative to petrol. there is a debate among ecologists and scientists whether to use…

What started my scientific wondering about popcorn? I was reading press-releases about presentations at the American Chemical Society's 239th meeting happening this week in San Francisco …

Scientists have development of a new carbon dating method to determine the age of mummies,  artwork, and other relics without damaging them.  Presenting at the National Meeting of the…

The key to silk's pound-for-pound toughness, which exceeds that of steel, is its beta-sheet crystals, the nano-sized cross-linking domains that hold the material together, say researchers writing in…

This weekend, over 10,000 chemists will descent upon San Francisco for the American Chemical Society national meeting.  For those of us that are presenting at the conference, we’re spending this…

 A team of researchers has discovered how to efficiently turn carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide using visible light. The discovery opens the doors for scientists to explore what organism is…

Does Spiderman get wet? The hunt has been on for some time now for what are called superhydrophobic surfaces.  These would be ideal for see-though surfaces such as windscreens and coating for…

 Can one make plastic from glucose? When I was young, there appeared on the shelf foods such as kippers that were boil-in-the-bag.  I then thought, “is the next stage to eat the bag as well…