ChemCafé

Chemical and physical explanations are invoked in order to explain the popular phenomenon referred to as a chemical fountain (or chemical geyser) that one obtains upon mixture of diet Coke and Mentos candies.

If you had appreciated the PCR song (still can’t believe the guy kisses the thermo-cycler…) or the famous epMotion video, it’s likely you’ll also like these commercials for SciFinder… They really make it look like an exceptional instrument, allowing you to succeed easily in research, but also making you so much happier in the out-of-the-lab [...]

Doing my weekly lit overview, I found on the Chem Comm Advance articles page a review, which title immediately attracted my eye. During my studies, I learnt how chemists can be smart when having to coin new names for molecules and techniques – think for example about the DEAD reagent, the INADEQUATE NMR technique, or [...]