North Carolina State University has launched the Rob-O-Chem lab, which allows students studying organic chemistry to participate in hands-on experiments regardless of their location. North Carolina ...

THE PURPOSE of green chemistry and green engineering is to help clean up the chemical enterprise—that is, to serve as a form of molecular-level pollution prevention. In practice, that means developing ...

Between a third and half of all soil carbon on Earth is stored in peatlands, says Tom and Marie Patton Distinguished Professor Joel Kostka. These wetlands—formed from layers and layers of decaying ...

A lemon scent wafted through the air as workers harvested hops at a small farm at the mouth of Cowiche Canyon last week. Less than 24 hours later, that same aroma was steeping in a wildly popular ...

Organic beekeeping can support healthy and productive honey bee colonies, and a new study led by researchers in Penn State's ...

In many parts of the world, chemistry students, especially at precollege levels, can’t do lab work because of limited equipment, glassware, reagents, and safe lab space. At the 14th Asian Chemical ...

Organic chemistry is a scientific area of study that is used to describe the structure, properties, composition, reactions and preparation of all chemical compounds containing the element carbon. Some ...

A new experiment simulating the surface of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus suggests that the organic compounds found in plumes erupting from its subsurface ocean may actually form on the moon's surface, ...