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 ...

Few intellectual traditions have been as misunderstood, romanticized, and ultimately as consequential as alchemy. Most people dismiss it as a fool’s errand — a pre-scientific fantasy in which deluded ...

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 ...

David E. Lewis, a professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, is the winner of the 2018 HIST Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry, presented by the ACS ...

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 ...