Research findings are available online in the Astrophysical Journal. The original story “ Student made cosmic dust in the lab revealing life’s early chemical origins ” is published in The Brighter ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover is attempting one of the rarest kinds of experiments ever tried on Mars, a painstaking chemical test that uses a limited supply of liquid reagents to hunt for traces of complex ...

A pair of new studies suggest that key steps toward life’s chemistry may begin long before planets exist. Experiments simulating interstellar space show that simple amino acids can link into peptides, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – “Smitten with Science” at the Great Lakes Science Center blends candy, chemistry and creativity into a ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Our final experiment we shared with the kids at Plainfield Child Care was a chemical reaction between baking soda and vinegar. It sort of illustrates a volcanic eruption, ...

Computational Chemistry is the study of complex chemical problems using a combination of computer simulations, chemistry theory and information science. Also called cheminformatics, this field enables ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — This experiment is a chemistry experiment that involves a reaction between copper and oxygen, also know as an oxidation reaction. To do this experiment, you will need: pennies a sheet ...

The Kilauea volcano, in Hawaii, has been acting up lately, and all kinds of nasty stuff is pouring out of it. But perhaps the ...

Back in October, Newscripts wrote about chemist and baker Josh Smalley, who was a contestant in the most recent season of the televised baking competition The Great British Bake Off (known in short as ...