Chemicals & Chemistry

Exploring the molecular world: new compounds, industrial chemistry, environmental impacts, material science discoveries, and the chemistry underlying everyday products and processes.

It's not a secret that the average person is scientifically illiterate. The question is, "Just how scientifically illiterate?" The answer is appalling.
Alliance for Risk Assessment (ARA) Presents: Beyond Science and Decisions: from Problem Formulation to Comprehensive Risk Assessment
In his book Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer, C.S.
Two Arkansas chemistry professors are either: a) a couple of morons, or b) extremely unlucky. There is just not enough information in the news to tell which of the above is true. The coverage is all over the place. For example:
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...