A chemical reaction caught fire Wednesday during a lab experiment at the University of Maryland, College Park, campus police said.Officials evacuated the Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building. The ...

The solvent dichloromethane, or DCM, is commonly used to strip paint and cut grease. It's also what generations of chemistry ...

For centuries, stories about will-o’-the-wisps have captured the popular imagination. Countless tales have been told to ...

Chemists show how PTFE - aka Teflon - in standard lab stir bars affects a chemical reaction used to reduce nanotubes, skewing the results. The stirrers that mix cream into your coffee probably don't ...

HOUSTON - (March 29, 2019) - The stirrers that mix cream into your coffee probably don't make much difference to the drink. But in a chemistry lab, it turns out using the wrong stirrer can skew the ...

Researchers aim to streamline the time- and resource-intensive process of screening ligands during catalyst design by using virtual ligands. Researchers aim to streamline the time- and ...

One person was injured Thursday afternoon during an adverse chemical reaction in a chemistry lab at the University of Maryland College Park. The victim sustained injuries to the facial area, and was ...

The same chemical reaction that makes a piece of freshly toasted bread delicious also happens in our bodies, with far less ...