For more than two centuries, fossil fuels have dominated global energy and chemical production, accounting for over 80% of ...

Researchers can make the oxidation reactions used in the synthesis of organic molecules cleaner by hitching photovoltaics to electrochemistry. The idea is simple and yet it has huge implications. To ...

In a feat of manipulating substances at the nanoscale, new research demonstrates a method to isolate two molecules together on a substrate and to control specifically how those two molecules react ...

Scientists have been naming ideas, theorems, discoveries, and so on after other scientists for a very long time (Newton’s laws of motion, anyone?). Chemists are no different. They’ve been naming ...

For Andrew L. Waterhouse, being tasked with wine selection when having drinks with family, friends, or inquisitive journalists is something of an occupational hazard. “It’s just part of the job,” the ...

The reactivity series ranks metals by how readily they react. More reactive metals displace less reactive metals from their compounds and react with water. Redox, rusting and iron - (CCEA) Oxidation ...

NEET 2020: Check important name reactions of Organic Chemistry which might be asked in NEET 2020. These reactions are from NCERT textbooks (11th & 12th) and CBSE Syllabus. Two to three questions are ...

In the past five years, alcohol poisoning of children has skyrocketed by 400 percent. Most of this is from kids, believe it or not, drinking hand sanitizer. Fortunately, this is a solvable problem -- ...