To better care for delicate marine artifacts, researchers in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering developed a new hydrogel ...

Through a partnership with a nearby university, the middle schoolers collected and analyzed environmental samples to find new antibiotic candidates.

Researchers report in ACS Central Science the ability to leverage one additive in black plastics, with the help of sunlight ...

When prompted to create portraits of “chemists,” AI doesn’t get it quite right: The diversity of the U.S. chemistry ...

Building on previous work, researchers in ACS Infectious Diseases have demonstrated a potential antibacterial treatment from ...

All living things depend on millions of chemical reactions that happen constantly. Chemical reactions that keep you alive happen fast! When you eat food, breathe, play, and grow, all of these are ...

The American Chemical Society expects its members to adhere to the highest ethical and safety standards. Indeed, the Federal Charter of the Society (1937) explicitly ...

1. Carefully pour some milk in a dish so it just covers the bottom. 2. Gently add one or two drops of red, blue, and yellow food coloring to the same spot in the center of the milk. 3. Dip a cotton ...

Exhaled breath contains chemical clues to what’s going on inside the body, including diseases like lung cancer. And devising ways to sense these compounds could help doctors provide early diagnoses — ...

Students will be able to develop and explain a particle-level model to describe their observations of water dissolving salt, the water evaporating, and the salt crystals re-forming. Dissolving a solid ...

1. Ask the adult you are working with to light the candle. 2. Watch the candle flame start out small and get bigger. Notice how some of the wax near the wick melts. 3. As the flame burns, the wax from ...

Can any corn become popcorn? Not all corn pops! Popcorn is a special type of corn. Some other grains, such as quinoa and sorghum, can pop too; but popcorn is the biggest and best popper! This picture ...