Many chemical feedstocks such as ethene and propene, the building blocks of many plastics, as well as aromatic compounds such as benzene and...

Taste refers to the ability to detect the flavour of substances. We receive tastes through sensory organs called taste buds which are concen...

Chemists at The City College of New York have designed a molecule which has both water-adhering and water-repelling ends, from cardanol (th...

Ammonia (NH 3 ) is one of the most important chemicals in the modern world, mostly due to its use in the manufacture of artificial fertili...

Luminol is a common reagent used to detect blood stains and other body fluids at crime scenes because it reacts with iron in blood to produc...

Scientists at Utrecht University, working with colleagues at the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and the University of S...

Combustion of fossil fuels, such as coal, fuel oil, or natural gas, liberates large quantities of carbon dioxide, a gas that significantly ...