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Unraveling the Human Genome: 6 Molecular Milestones

In a milestone for the understanding of human genetics, scientists announced in September 2012 the results of five years of work in unraveling the se…

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Why Fertilizer Is Dangerous

Nitrogen, one of three common additives to agricultural fertilizer, is often in the form of ammonium nitrate, a potentially explosive chemical compou…

What do chemists do?

What do chemists do? Chemists work in a variety of fields, including research and development, quality control, manufacturing, environmental protectio…

Chemistry is a physical science

Chemistry is typically considered a physical science, as defined by the Encyclopedia Britannica, because the study of chemistry does not involve livi…

Chemistry basics

The reason why chemistry touches everything we do is because almost everything in existence can be broken down into chemical building blocks. The main…

What is chemistry?

You might think of chemistry only in the context of lab tests, food additives or dangerous substances, but the field of chemistry involves everything…