Chemistry

Isoprene: Plants Can Make Their Own Pesticide But The Environmental Cost Is High

As the developed world becomes more removed from science and health, it is easier to embrace beliefs that science and medicine are not needed at all, with some claiming that vaccines and pesticides are not really needed, the natural world can do it without ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 16 2025 - 9:47am

What Happened The Day Before You Died 800 Years Ago? The Chemistry Answer

A young child buried in the medieval town of Ribe in Denmark 800 years ago had an unpleasant life even before that- because the child had been given a large dose of mercury in an attempt to cure a severe, ongoing illness.  A new methodology developed by c ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2025 - 2:46pm

Seventh Generation Crisis: 'Green' Products For Women Under Fire By PFAS Activists

'Green' chemical products have generally gotten a pass from the environmental community but with one of their own, former Natural Resources Defense Council lawyer Robert F. Kennedy, now in charge of a gigantic government health agency and going a ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 25 2025 - 11:53am

Methanetetrol: We're In A 'Super Alcohol' Timeline Now

Methanetetrol, the only alcohol which has four hydroxyl groups (OH) at a single carbon atom, is out of this world. Scientists meant that literally, it had been only theorized because it cannot occur naturally in Earth's everyday conditions but in extr ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 31 2025 - 2:34pm

Don't Worry About EWG ‘Toxic Toys’, Worry About Toxic Plants Instead

Every year around this time, scare-mongering “consumer” groups such as The Environmental Working Group (EWG) spew out alerts about allegedly toxic toys, specifying numerous “chemicals of concern” that parents should shun, based on EWG’s ...

Article - Gil Ross - Aug 28 2025 - 9:55pm

How Synthetic Pumpkin Spice Took Fall Away From Organic Apples

In 2003, the Human Genome Project was completed and both Tesla and LinkedIn were founded. Those were all interesting but not revolutionary; cars and job sites already existed, and we knew a lot about DNA, we just didn't have a complete "map" ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 22 2025 - 9:47am

Make Your Own Halloween Slime- In Both Gen X And Hippie-Dippie Baloney Versions

If a politician who used to be a Natural Resources Defense Council lawyer hasn’t banned all food coloring by the time you read this, here is how you can make your own green slime. In both Gen X- chemicals that sound like chemicals- and more natural-soundi ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 21 2025 - 3:44pm

Kennedy Effect: Now NIEHS Scaremongers Any 'Detectable' PFAS Levels

A National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences paper(1) is sounding the alarm about detectable per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in blood samples of Delaware residents. It sounds scary, but scientifically there are two things to keep in min ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 27 2025 - 2:11pm

TSCA: Here Is What You Need To Know About EPA Taking A New Look At Formaldehyde

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has signaled it will once again examine formaldehyde under the Toxic Substances Control Act. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 4 2025 - 4:50pm

Weekend Science: The Chemistry Of Hangovers

Since today is a celebration of St. Patrick, the religious figure who 'drove the snakes out of Ireland' (meaning Paganism), a whole lot of people got drunk last night.   Yeah, Protestants getting drunk the night before before a Catholic religious ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 18 2026 - 12:24pm