Chemistry

Fuel produced from various animal fats is similar to biodiesel manufactured using ethanol from corn. But if the price of animal fat rose sharply, no one would really notice, since no one really eats animal fat. And it isn't just limited to chicken, p ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2014 - 10:13pm

None Of The Above: A Science Show The Whole Family Will Enjoy

If you, like me, want to enjoy some science with your kids and not feel pushy about it, National Geographic has a terrific program coming out this evening. My kids can't get enough of None Of The Above which debuts at 9 PM tonight. Host Tim Shaw gets ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 24 2014 - 12:49pm

Walking Dead Weekend Beer Science: Brains And Big Donors

The Walking Dead season finale is coming soon and nothing goes with zombie television like brains. In beer. No, really. Dock Street in Philadelphia is introducing a Walking Dead beer, called "Walker", I suppose, to avoid the inevitable lawsuit. I ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2015 - 5:42pm

There Will Be Oil! Unless It Gets Replaced By Sugar

Some people insist that Big Oil is in control of energy because so many products, from plastic to rubber, use it. It's just the opposite, people came up with so many uses because it was there. To claim otherwise is like blaming toasters for the inven ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2014 - 9:42am

Outside Television, Here Is What Gunshot Residue Can Really Tell CSI

The popular TV series "CSI" may be fiction but real-life crime scene investigators and forensic scientists have been collecting and analyze evidence to determine what happened at crime scenes almost as long as there have been crime scenes. There ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 26 2014 - 10:05am

How To Make Grilled Meats Better And Healthier- A Beer Marinade

Sausage experts know that the key to perfect meat is simmering in beer first- and in Science 2.0's definitive article on outdoor cooking, The Science Of Grilling, we learned that beer has multiple uses in cuisine, and an article in the Journal of Agr ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2015 - 5:19pm

4,000 Reasons To Love Chemistry- And That's Just In Whisky

If there is a pleasant, chemically-induced but culturally acceptable pastime, someone at U.C. Davis is probably studying it. They have one of my favorite beer scholars, Prof. Charles Bamforth, and are even setting up a coffee science group. Their nutrition ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 28 2014 - 4:30pm

Caribou Clear Coffee: No Color And Stain Free

Caribou Coffee, founded in 1992, says nationwide surveys show that the number one complaint of coffee-drinkers is the way it stains. Be it coffee rings to drips on white dress shirts to stains on teeth, a cup of coffee can start your day off right or ruin ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2014 - 11:30pm

Simulating Yeast Metabolism To Understand Changes During Wine Fermentation

Rubén Martínez, a graduate in Biology and Biochemistry at Elhuyar Fundazioa, and colleagues have developed a new methodology that makes it possible to know what physiological state the yeast is in at each point in the wine fermentation process. This know ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2014 - 11:41am

Plastic, Heal Thyself

Self-healing materials can repair themselves by restoring their initial molecular structure after the damage and scientists from Evonik Industries and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have developed a chemical crosslinking reaction that ensures good ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 13 2014 - 11:49am