Navy chemists claim to have refined short chain hydrocarbons from seawater and hope to develop kerosene-based jet fuel from the process: The process involves extracting carbon dioxide dissolved in the water and combin...

Some of the most notorious discoveries and inventions arose by accident, or more commonly, were developed for uses other than what they ended up doing. Listverse looks at ten such products, including trinitrotoluene, a c...

(YouTube Link) This promotional video from the European Research Commission uses a dance party to explain how basic chemical compounds are formed. Via The Presurfer...

Xenon {wiki} is the heaviest non-radioactive noble gas. It affects your voice like sulphur hexafluoride (previously at Neatorama) and can get you high like nitrous oxide (laughing gas). Don't try this at home; just watch...

After many years in grad school, Pauline Fujita of Litmus has had at least as much coffee as science, yet like most of us, she knew very little of the brewed beverage. So, Pauline decided to delve a little into the scien...

Just the other day, I thought about how neato my b...  ...has a how-to video on just that! They don't make chemistry sets like they used to -- no more uranium or expl...

A duvet cover goes over an ordinary blanket to t...  ...s awesome duvet cover for her boyfriend, who is a chemistry major. It has the entire periodic table of elemen...