The story of the first porcelain made in Europe gives some insight into the older threads, like alchemy, that are woven into modern chemistry, says Roald Hoffmann, a professor of humane letters in the ...

Part of the appeal of the Boyle myth may be that it promised a clean break: a waymark at which alchemy was cast aside and chemistry took over. But such changes rarely if ever happen in science, and ...

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, the French scientist, is known as the Father of Chemistry (Specifically, the Father of Modern ...

Sherri Karpovich watched at the Bruce Museum Sunday as her two sons Christopher, 11, and Zachary, 9, and their friend Wyatt Ferran, 11, enthusiastically created hand lotions. The Rye, N.Y., resident ...

An engraved plate attributed to Augsburg printmaker Martin Engelbrecht in the early eighteenth century depicts an 18th-century engraving of a ragged, impoverished alchemist. Before he was a well-known ...

The name of Isaac Newton comes to mind when one talks about physics. And it’s Charles Darwin we think of when biology is referred to. But what name comes to mind when we think of chemistry? Probably ...

Associate Professor Grace Stokes helps her chemistry students visualize equations by integrating Python coding into her curriculum. Associate Professor Grace Stokes helps her chemistry students ...

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