Curator Mark Chalmers reads a book in the Oesper Museum's reproduction 1900s chemistry laboratory at the University of Cincinnati. Like other sciences, chemistry can seem a little cold and detached.

SCIENCEFROMAWAY: 2012. 476 pp. $25.00. What if everything you think you know about chemistry textbooks is wrong? In his book What the Best College Teachers Do, Ken Bain states several times that ...

From studying a newly discovered art piece to preventing mold and fungus in old paintings, chemistry and art history often meet and even inspired a new high school curriculum. A few weeks ago, ...

The concept of the chemical bond has been around since the days when chemistry still was considered magic, and it continued to be a point of interest in the 17th century when chemistry was evolving ...

Chemists tend to have a less conservative outlook than the average person on the street. This is, of course, stating the obvious. Orthodoxy and pushing the boundaries of chemical research are simply ...

Chemists have been worried about their image for a long time. In the words of the American Chemical Society's vision statement, chemists view themselves as "improving peoples' lives through the ...

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