Chemistry

During daylight hours, hundreds of bombardier beetles of multiple species will congregate together to more effectively ward off any predators not afraid of a lone beetle's toxic spray.

Using the periodic table to memorize that celebrated number

An activity to melt over from Science Buddies

A few brief reports about international science and technology from Greenland to Palau, including one on the discovery of a trove of mummified cats in Egypt.

Biologists have taken the genes that produce cannabinoids in weed and plugged them into yeast, making rare and novel compounds more accessible. Christopher Intagliata reports.

When researchers fed mosquitoes a drug used to treat people for obesity, the insects were less interested in hunting for their next human meal ticket. Karen Hopkin reports.

Researchers are battling to identify and assess a worrying class of persistent chemicals

There’s a good reason to salt the roads before snow starts falling

The dynamic textile becomes more breathable in hotter, sweatier conditions

Even at the age of 15, I realized my obsession with collecting all the elements in the periodic table’s is not something most kids aspire to

Rather than building objects layer by layer, the printer creates whole structures by projecting light into a resin that solidifies

Is the “unique snowflake” just flake news? Mother Nature might never produce two identical snowflakes, thanks to the near-infinite variability of the conditions affecting ice crystal formation. But a Caltech scientist has developed a process for growing pairs of twin snowflakes.