Chemicals & Chemistry

Barbara Demeneix, a team leader at The Paris Natural History Museum, certainly has credentials. She earned a Ph.D.

The chemistry of gasoline is not as simple as you'd think.

French President Emmanuel Macron has declared he will ban the American herbicide glyphosate within three years, and sooner if a replacement is ready.

It's not an uncommon situation faced by farmers: using additives to boost crop production, which then generates an unwanted problem down the line.

A recent editorial in JAMA Marijuana, Secondhand Smoke, and Social Acceptability begins by remarking on “The cloud of secondhand marijuana smoke” vis

Did you know that 24k gold (at least 99.7% pure) makes lousy jewelry?  It is so soft that it can be bent by hand and you can even bite into it.

Over the past few years the whisky-drinking world has been introduced to several new products that claim to produce high-quality liquor in just a fraction of the time usually required to age single malt spirits.

Whether it's in the body or in a lab, chemical reactions are omnipresent; life depends on thousands of chemical reactions as do virtually all of the products that we use every day. 

The Internet is abuzz with new claims that hoppy beers, found in abundance in the IPA craft fad, are going to turn men into voluptuous women - because of endocrine-disrupting chemicals. This is not the first time it has come up.

When studies are published in major journals one assumes that study adds value to scientific knowledge - sadly this is not always the case.