Chemistry

A stratified science project from Science Buddies

Globules move around, ingest others, leave waste—and could hold clues to origins of cells

Remnants of a beer-making operation some 5,000 years old have been found in northern China.

Scenes from The Hunger Games 2 and Walking with Dinosaurs caused viewers to vent particular compounds

Many red-colored birds have to convert yellow pigments in their food into the red pigments that make their feathers and beaks so brilliant.

Chemists generate variations on erythromycin in "daring" synthesis

Synthetic polymerase is a small step along the way to mirrored life-forms

Imprinted polymers capture chemicals in sweat that cause body odor

Caltech theoretical physicist Sean M. Carroll talks about his new book The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself. (Dutton, 2016)

Caltech theoretical physicist Sean M. Carroll talks about the necessary connections among the various ways we have of describing the universe.

Data from failed experiments combines with machine learning to predict successful chemical reactions and form new hypotheses 

A chemical compound can cut a cow's methane emissions by 30 percent—and help the animal get more energy from its food. Christopher Intagliata reports.