Chemicals & Chemistry

Have you ever had a kidney stone? Your answer will be yes or no, not "I'm not sure." Just like the statement "I'm not sure whether I was just run over by a cement mixer" won't play. Both events lack subtlety.

It's more of the same from the Environmental Working Group (EWG) - cleverly designed but scientifically nonsensical scares. "Organic: The Original Clean Food" is a magnifice

A couple of years ago, Panera Bread went crazy. Somebody high up in the corporation decided that selling (what is, in my opinion1) really great tasting food was no longer a sufficient strategy.

If you say "palladium" to most people they will think music. But a chemist will think "5% palladium on carbon hydrogenation catalyst." As if we need more evidence that chemists are mutants.

Friday, April 26th: "FDA OKs New Topical Treatment Duobrii for Plaque Psoriasis." 

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Ben Valsler over at Chemistry World recently wrote an interesting piece about the chemistry and biology that leads to a strange phenomenon c

 By Kayleen Schreiber, Genetic Literacy Project

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