Chemistry, often referred to as the central science, is a realm where scientists become modern-day alchemists, unlocking the secrets of matter and energy. Within the controlled environment of a ...

Students learn how to predict the products of a chemical reaction. Types of Reactions: Students learn how to indicate the state of a substance in a chemical equation. The major types of reactions are ...

Penn State researchers have uncovered a surprising twist in a foundational chemical reaction known as oxidative addition. Typically believed to involve transition metals donating electrons to organic ...

In the past few years, researchers have turned increasingly to data science techniques to aid problem-solving in organic synthesis. The software adapts key principles of Bayesian Optimization (BO) to ...

In this video, I explain why some reactions explode while others cool, exploring the root cause of chemical energy. I discuss the chemistry behind endothermic and exothermic reactions, which involves ...

Scientists have been naming ideas, theorems, discoveries, and so on after other scientists for a very long time (Newton’s laws of motion, anyone?). Chemists are no different. They’ve been naming ...

Editor’s note: The Lab Report is a weekly series in The Badger Herald’s print edition where we take a deep dive into the (research) lives of students and professors outside the classroom. Plastic, one ...

Everything around us is made of molecules. Molecules are in constant motion, and when they collide just right, chemical reactions can occur! Chemical reactions can happen fast or slow, and the ...

For Theodore Gray, chemical reactions are “a sort of nanoscale fight club”. In Reactions, the chemist, science writer and technologist offers a lavishly illustrated tour of this molecular battleground ...