As an organic chemist, I am willing to deal with the occasional bang or kapow in the lab, as long as things don’t get too out of hand… By Derek Lowe. (Sept. 27, 2016)

The shiny element was important to Renaissance scientists. Very important. By Kat Eschner. (Dec. 14, 2016)

The tardigrade, a strange animal smaller than a grain of sand and with hooks for feet, can survive in a dried-up state for a decade. Its secret might help improve how drugs are shipped and stored. By Madeline K. Sofia.

Physicists have beaten chemists at their own game.

Australian scientists use an everyday cooking oil to make graphene, a material hundreds of times stronger than steel.

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

We’re going to assume that Dan Clinch is a teacher who’s either found a great way to get his students excited about chemistry, or is just looking to get fired with a comfortable severance package. Because having them pass around what appears to be an invisible flaming bubble of propane looks both amazing and dangerous at the same time.

When you drop a watermelon off a 45-metre (148-foot) tower, you expect it to fall fast and leave a big mess at the bottom. And that's exactly what happens, most of the time.

Nihonium, Moscovium, Tennessine and Oganesson are officially official. This week, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry added numbers 113,..

Researchers have injected carbon dioxide into basalt and turned it into solid rock in two years. This effort offers a potential solution for curbing the high carbon gas emissions in our atmosphere. By Susmita Baral.

It’s one of the most fundamental compounds on Earth, and it makes up roughly 60 percent of the human body, and yet water is turning out to be stranger than we could have ever imagined.

Parts from every domain of life put together and optimized. By John Timmer.

Meteorites might have delivered some of the basic building blocks, but there are still some missing pieces to the puzzle. By Elizabeth Tasker.

For the first time, physicists have observed a strange molecule called the butterfly Rydberg molecule - a weak pairing of highly excitable atoms that was first predicted back in 2002. The find not only confirms a 14-year-old prediction - it also confirms the existence of a whole new type of atomic bond. Rydberg molecules form when an electron is kicked far from an atom's nucleus, making them super electronically excited.

For the first time, physicists have observed a strange molecule called the butterfly Rydberg molecule - a weak pairing of highly excitable atoms that was first predicted back in 2002 .

Today would have been Mary Morgan’s 95th birthday. By Daniel Oberhaus.

This soap molecule is made from natural products, like soybeans, coconut, and corn rather than fossil fuels, making it ten times better for the Earth.

Eight types of beautiful chemical reactions are presented in this short video.

The process is cheap, efficient, and scalable, meaning it could soon be used to remove large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere. By Avery Thompson.