UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Six Penn State faculty members have received the 2026 George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in ...

Raise your hand if you dreaded chemistry lessons at school. Apart from a few exceptional cases, this discipline is often perceived as difficult, abstract and removed from real life. This affects ...

Understanding scientific principles and practices is essential for every person. Without scientific literacy, people are subject to false or inflated advertising claims, misplaced fears, and a general ...

Synthetic materials are made from natural resources. Synthetic materials are made by chemically changing the starting substances to create a material with different characteristics. Some examples of ...

Mercury, the element, is no longer used in thermometers, but it remains at the center of a decades-long debate over vaccine safety, despite the science being crystal clear. At the heart of this ...

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In most chemistry curriculum, students attend practical trainings in physical laboratories to reinforce their theoretical knowledge. However, the availability of these facilities can be limited or ...

Thinking about what draws you to your romantic partner (now, or in the past), how easily could you put this into words? Try as you might, you can’t narrow it down to personality (similar to yours, or ...

When makeup designer Miho Suzuki began working on Lessons in Chemistry, she decided the makeup needed to follow the story arc of Elizabeth Zott (Brie Larson). “In the beginning, she couldn’t afford to ...

When Bonnie Garmus wrote Lessons in Chemistry, her novel that spent 58 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, she was “writing [her] own role model.” At Thursday’s Cubberley Lecture, moderated ...