Chemistry

Want to off someone but you are ethically against using anything made by Monsanto? There is good news. Ricin is organic, a naturally occurring lectin (toxalbumin) made from from the castor oil plant…

How lifeless materials became organic molecules that are the bricks of animals and plants is a science question for the ages. The secret of a reaction that has to do with the synthesis of complex…

Because government mandates and subsidies for ethanol have caused grain prices to increase, pig farmers have instead looked for alternatives. One of those is distillers dried grains with solubles (…

 By simply manipulating chemical gradients in a beaker of fluid, researchers have been able to create delicate flower structures -  not at the scale of inches, but microns. These minuscule…

Organic chemists are regularly surrounded by chemicals and their smell. Colour is not the only characteristic by which we recognize compounds. Too often, it is their odor that allows us know that…

The most powerful batteries on earth are only a few millimeters in size but a cellphone version can jump-start a dead car battery and then recharge the phone in the blink of an eye.  Led by…

A traditional Balkan bedbug remedy has been shown stab and trap the biting insects, according to a paper in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Just in time, too. Bedbugs have made a dramatic…

New research hopes to create reactions necessary for industries such as pharmaceutical companies but eliminate the resulting waste from traditional methods.  Traditional methods – dating…

If objects from space kindled life on Earth, how did it happen? The terrestrial or extra-terrestrial case for important ingredients that led to the building blocks of life is a hot debate. A new…

Bodily fluids contain lots of information about the health of people, that is why medical doctors routinely have blood and urine analyzed. But bodily fluids can do more than mark infectious diseases…