Much like radio operators being encouraged to use the least possible amount of power to make a contact, chemists have a ...

Scientists built SpudCell, the first synthetic cell that grows, divides and evolves, entirely from non-living chemicals. They still won't call it alive.

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Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the ...

I wish I could have seen the real thing.

Windows can look particularly grimy at this time of year but there is a simple way to get them sparkling clean in just a few minutes using only one item in your kitchen cupboard ...

Thousands of CU Boulder glassware items found a new home in local public school classrooms, supporting over 6,200 students! When the CU Boulder General Chemistry Teaching Labs prepared for a lab ...

If you enjoyed this article, I’d like to ask for your support. Scientific American has served as an advocate for science and industry for 180 years, and right now may be the most critical moment in ...

Researchers have developed an entirely new way to 3D print pure glass. Current methods of printing glass take two forms. The first is to simply have an extraordinarily hot nozzle melt glass and ...

Alfred University chemistry students will have an opportunity to add hot glass work to their skill sets, thanks to the efforts of senior chemistry major Sydnie Tutmaher and her father, Tom Tutmaher of ...

Approached from an oblique angle, a facade of opaque and transparent glass at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee’s (UWM) new Chemistry Building appears to defy its own physicality. Windows look as ...

Cryopreservation, or preserving biological tissue by cooling it to subzero temperatures, may bring to mind works of science fiction. Yet, researchers have been working on this technology for nearly ...