Chemicals & Chemistry

ACSH's Holiday Dinner Menu is our most popular publication of all time. And, how could it not be?

The chemical reaction that killed the manager of a Buffalo Wings restaurant in Massachusetts last week i

Once in a while (just for yuks) I'll write about some of the hideous chemicals that we chemists have to use now and then despite the fact that they are not only a pain in the a##, but also mighty dangerous.

If you are driving around the southwest and find yourself in the middle of nowhere...

Last year, my wife and I moved out of Seattle into a house in the suburbs. One of the many new responsibilities we acquired in the process is taking care of a yard.

Steve, the Mad Chemist, and I go back a long way. We were postdocs together (about 200 years ago) and later worked for the same pharmaceutical company for a decade.

Reprinted by permission of McGill University Office for Science and Society. ### 

Here's a diagram of a distillation apparatus. It's very simple. The liquid to be purified is placed in a distillation flask.

By Dr. Michael Dourson and Dr. Bernard Gadagbui

A group from the University of Arizona has come up with something that sounds like it belongs in a science fiction movie; an easy, immediate test for norovirus – the bug that causes the "stomach flu" – using a modified smartpho