Morning Overview on MSN

NASA is tracking new clues to extraterrestrial life

NASA’s search for life beyond Earth is no longer a distant dream but a coordinated campaign that now stretches from Martian ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Bennu samples delivered a surprise material nobody predicted

When scientists finally cracked open the capsule from asteroid Bennu, they expected carbon, water-bearing minerals, and maybe ...
C&EN

DCM Ban: Alternatives & Resources for Dichloromethane

Extensive resource of information regarding the pros/cons of DCM and where greener solvents can be used in its place in select organic chemistry reactions and purification processes. Elimination of ...
C&EN

An Organic Chemistry Lab Exercise for Isolating, Derivatizing, and Analyzing Fatty Acid Mixtures from Culinary Fats and Oils

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Campus Safety Magazine

Student and Teacher Burned in Chemistry Lab Fire at Massachusetts High School

A 15-year-old student and teacher sustained burns when a fire erupted during a chemistry experiment at Brookline High School’s summer program on July 3. The incident highlights the need for laboratory ...
Daily Texan

High enrollment rates in required organic chemistry lab puts pressure on pre-med students

Beginning in the spring semester of 2026, the UT chemistry department will begin to strongly encourage pre-med students to enroll in the required organic chemistry lab during their second year because ...
Wired

The Universe Is Teeming With Complex Organic Molecules

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Ten years ago, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe pulled up alongside a dusty, icy lump the size of a mountain. The probe would ...
Nature

‘Forever’ chemicals can be destroyed with clever chemistry — now test these techniques outside the lab

A simple chemical bond between carbon and fluorine atoms changed the world — for the better, and then for the worse. Such bonds lie at the heart of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a group ...
Quanta Magazine

The Cosmos Teems with Complex Organic Molecules

Ten years ago, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe pulled up alongside a dusty, icy lump the size of a mountain. The probe would follow its quarry, a comet called 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, for ...
C&EN

Modifying an Organic Chemistry Esterification Teaching Lab to Be Accessible to Blind and Visually Impaired (BVI) Students

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CNN

Opinion: This fired chemistry professor’s example shows what’s wrong with academia

The basic outline is this: According to an article in the New York Times, Maitland Jones Jr. is one of the nation’s top organic chemistry professors. He was tenured at Princeton, wrote an influential ...