A new study by a research team at The University of Western Australia and Murdoch University has found that an ion considered an essential part of chemistry calculations does not exist. As a result, ...

SCIENCEFROMAWAY: 2012. 476 pp. $25.00. What if everything you think you know about chemistry textbooks is wrong? In his book What the Best College Teachers Do, Ken Bain states several times that ...

The concept of the chemical bond has been around since the days when chemistry still was considered magic, and it continued to be a point of interest in the 17th century when chemistry was evolving ...

Chemists have been worried about their image for a long time. In the words of the American Chemical Society's vision statement, chemists view themselves as "improving peoples' lives through the ...

Taken by Samuel Page, a staff member of the Canterbury College Chemistry department, this 1914 photo shows the first year laboratory, which is today the site of UC’s Teece Museum of Classical ...

ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY; 2011. 348 pp. £19.99 William Brock has seen the history of chemistry change from being a fringe interest, owing as much to enthusiastic amateurs (often professional ...

Just 92 elements make up the world, but the belief that were only four - earth, fire, air and water - persisted until the 19th Century. Professor Al-Khalili retraces the footsteps of the alchemists ...