CHEMISTRY

This Interactive Periodic Table Features a Haiku for Each Element

Chemistry makes for some great poetic inspiration.

Scientists Figure Out How to Recycle Aluminum Foil Into an Ingredient for Biofuel

There's a new way to recycle aluminum, even if it has food on it.

This Illustrated Periodic Table Shows How We Regularly Interact With Each Element

This graphic, spotted by inhabitat, presents the information found in a traditional periodic table with pictographs and labels indicating where you might encounter each element in your life.

'Safer' Drugs Found at Music Festivals Contain Meth and Bath Salts

The upside is, finding out what the drugs actually were made people less likely to take them.

Time Has Only Strengthened These Ancient Roman Walls

In the 1st century CE, Pliny the Elder wrote that Roman seawalls grew "every day stronger." Turns out he was right.

Why Does Humid Weather Make Hair Frizzy?

Blame chemistry.

The 14-Year-Old Who Convinced People to Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide

It won him first prize at the science fair.

Scientists Create Synthetic Melanin They Can 'Tune' to Different Colors

Melanin gives our eyes, hair, and skin their colors, but it can also protect against UV rays, store energy, and a whole lot more.

We May Be Able to Make Plastic Sustainable Using Pine Needle Waste

The new type of polymer would replace crude oil in mostly sustainable plastic.

What Really Happens When You Swallow Your Gum?

A new video from the American Chemical Society breaks down the science of a substance that we can't break down.

Watch How Neon Signs are Made

Neon burns red, argon glows blue.

Watch Liquid Mercury Freeze Solid ... And Hammer Rubber Nails

It's all about entropy.

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The Dynamic History of the Toy Chemistry Set

From academic tool to popular children's toy, the chemistry set has had a long journey to become an iconic toy.

Mathematicians Calculate How to Brew the Perfect Cup of Coffee

Your morning routine gets quantified by mathematical models.

Watch This Groovy 1960s Tupperware™ Documentary/Infomercial

In The Wonderful World Of Tupperware™ Plastics, we learn the benefits of Tupperware™, "made from polyethylene, polypropylene, and polystyrene—relative newcomers to the wonderful world of imagination and industry." This is precisely what that guy in The Gr

Check Out This Year's Nobel Prize Winners in Science

This year, the Nobel Prize celebrated research on molecular machines, cells' recycling mechanisms, and discoveries about unusual states of matter.

Irish Teeth Reveal the Chemical Signature of the Great Famine

Researchers analyzed 20 sets of human remains from one of the many workhouses where entire families were institutionalized—and made to work long hours—as a "remedy" to poverty.