Chemicals & Chemistry

Here's a diagram of a distillation apparatus. It's very simple. The liquid to be purified is placed in a distillation flask.

By Dr. Michael Dourson and Dr. Bernard Gadagbui

A group from the University of Arizona has come up with something that sounds like it belongs in a science fiction movie; an easy, immediate test for norovirus – the bug that causes the "stomach flu" – using a modified smartpho

Spoiler: Stupid Alert...

Obesity. It's a big fat problem. And, as with all big fat problems, somebody else is to blame.

Because Americans have a conspiracy theory about everything, of course there's a conspiracy involving drinking water.

You might as well get pissed off in advance because if you don't much care for scientific evidence you're not going to enjoy this a whole lot.

"Life is like a box of chocolates," Forrest Gump's mom would say. "You never know what you're going to get." The same is true for a bag of Chipotle.

Did you ever take a sip of a Diet Coke and have it taste like death (1)? Not at all sweet. Kind of sour-metallic-motor oil-rotting corpse-tasting?

One of the many fascinating aspects of organic chemistry is how seemingly different reactions work in the same exact way.