Everyday Items, Complex Chemistry
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Holiday shoppers may worry about whether the toys they buy contain lead, but some scientists are urging consumers to focus on the thousands of chemicals in everyday household items.
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Forcing a trio of incompatible molecules together yields multi-compartment nano containers.
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Nylon, one of the world's most versatile synthetics, comes into the world. And just in time, too. Compiled by Tony Long.
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Swarovski crystals have created a trend in consumer technology.
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Electronic textiles have applications far beyond cool shirts.
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By Marty, Diane  CONSUMER NEWS  Are You Walking on 120 Chemicals?  People spend 90 percent of their time inside buildings and the majority of those hours in their homes.
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For things that are right under your nose
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Archeologists found a small container with a whitish medicinal or cosmetic cream made up of animal fat, starch and tin oxide. Researchers writing in the November edition of the British magazine Nature say
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Chemical reactions come in many varieties with the companies posting quarterly financials in the first week of 2005 -- but is it market science or ancient alchemy at play?
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By Christopher J. Moody  Charles Rees was one of the most eminent organic chemists of his generation. He specialised in the area of heterocyclic chemistry - the study of rings made up of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and sulphur atoms - a subject that touches all of our daily lives.
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New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in nanotechnology--and what they mean.
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A beautiful chemical reaction is still a mystery to scientists more than 35 years after its first demonstration.
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Scientists have discovered that byproducts of such everyday activities as using anti-bacterial hand soap or zapping mosquitoes with bug spray are winding up in streams and groundwater from the Denver area to remote spots in the Colorado mountains.
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Peanut butter, toothpaste, and laundry detergent make for an interesting combination.
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Multifunction devices, workgroup printers, and a new digital pen debut.
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Combining a chemical chain reaction with the precise positioning of an atomic microscope opens a route to molecular electronics and nanostructures.
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By Whitesides, George M  Travelogues from Lilliput THE DANCE OF MOLECULES: How Nanotechnology Is Changing Our Lives. Ted Sargent, xx + 234 pp. Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006. $25.  NANO-HYPE: The Truth Behind the Nanotechnology Buzz. David Berube. Foreword by Mihail C. Roco. 521 pp.