By now, you have surely seen many images of planes dropping a red liquid on the Los Angeles fires. It's not just water. A ...

In my case, instead of rain, it was usually a foot of snow—followed by weeks or months of crusty, slippery, dirty ice. And ...

Coaches, and car enthusiasts, fear rust, corrosion that occurs on metal surfaces when iron reacts with oxygen and water.

The red retardant Phos-Chek is being used by authorities to combat fires in Los Angeles. What's it made of and how does it ...

As fire crews and air tankers work to block the wildfires' explosive growth, images of red clouds of fire retardant falling onto trees are common. What is it — and what's in it?

As fire crews and air tankers work to block the wildfires' explosive growth, images of red clouds of fire retardant falling ...

Northwestern researchers transform waste molecule TPPO into a key material for redox flow batteries, boosting sustainability in energy storage.

Often known as the central science, it is a creative discipline chiefly concerned with atomic and molecular structure and its change, for instance through chemical reactions. Electrolytic hydrogen ...

Chemical biology is the study of the chemicals and chemical reactions involved in biological processes, incorporating the disciplines of bioorganic chemistry, biochemistry, cell biology and ...

Chemical reactions involve changes in substances and energy. Quantifying these changes has a number of scientific and industrial applications. For example, calculating the generation of greenhouse ...

When metals react with oxygen, metal oxides are formed. The speed of the reaction depends on the reactivity of the metal. Watch this video for a practical demonstration of reacting metals with oyxgen.

The ACS Scholars Program awards renewable scholarships to undergraduate students from historically underrepresented groups in the chemical sciences, majoring in chemistry-related disciplines, and ...