At a time when most kids are pestering their parents for video games and other high-tech toys, it's easy to be nostalgic for the glory days of the chemistry set. So C&EN assembled a group of grown-ups ...

As a boy growing up in India, Manu Prakash once undertook a DIY pyrotechnics experiment that didn't quite go as planned. He managed to start a fire and burn his hand. "I had an extreme chemistry ...

Robert Bruce Thompson, author of Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments, has assembled a chemistry set to sell to amateur chemistry buffs and homeschoolers. Because chemistry is widely ...

Growing kids tend to repeat all sorts of colorful language heard while at school, yet there's one particular C-word that causes some parents to feel a special type of dread. Chemistry. A new teaching ...

Instead of working as a researcher at a university or a company, a chemistry experiment workshop with locals and a chemist male John Kuhns selling chemistry laboratory instruments and chemicals at the ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. Fortunately, Amazon has just the thing: National Geographic’s ...

College-aged girls have heard it before: Never leave your drink alone. But what if there was a way to know, before you even took a sip, if it had been tampered with? “As a technical person, I feel ...

Chemistry sets used to be awesome. Today, a lot of them suck. But the kit pictured here (which, with 49 days left in its campaign, has already been successfully funded on Kickstarter) comes fully ...

We often think of chemistry as precision work that requires beakers, droppers, scales, centrifuges, and Bunsen burners. But what if you could just crank this $5 music box chemistry kit and create ...

In this glorious age of chemophobia, chalk up another victory for mass hysteria: Now you can buy the CHEMISTRY 60 chemistry set for children featuring “60 fun activities with no chemicals.” I’m ...