As a boy growing up in India, Manu Prakash once undertook a DIY pyrotechnics experiment that didn't quite go as planned. He managed to start a fire and burn his hand. "I had an extreme chemistry ...

We often think of chemistry as precision work that requires beakers, droppers, scales, centrifuges, and Bunsen burners. But what if you could just crank this $5 music box chemistry kit and create ...

Chemistry sets used to be awesome. Today, a lot of them suck. But the kit pictured here (which, with 49 days left in its campaign, has already been successfully funded on Kickstarter) comes fully ...

Although children’s chemistry kits were first manufactured in the 18th century, it wasn’t until around the time of the Great Depression that they became a popular toy. The marketing was simple: ...

College-aged girls have heard it before: Never leave your drink alone. But what if there was a way to know, before you even took a sip, if it had been tampered with? “As a technical person, I feel ...

Growing kids tend to repeat all sorts of colorful language heard while at school, yet there's one particular C-word that causes some parents to feel a special type of dread. Chemistry. A new teaching ...

Did you have a chemical experiment kit when you were a kid? Would you buy, or have you already bought, one for your children? Chemistry is one of the sciences that are hard to understand by just ...

Kits made by Qiagen and Invitrogen make copying biological molecules -- DNA and proteins -- easier than painting by numbers. Using them reminds me of playing with a chemistry set: There are clearly ...

In this glorious age of chemophobia, chalk up another victory for mass hysteria: Now you can buy the CHEMISTRY 60 chemistry set for children featuring “60 fun activities with no chemicals.” I’m ...

A chemistry set, designed by a bioengineer from Stanford University, costs just $5. This "chemistry set for the 21st century" was inspired by a toy music box. It is compact, yet still allows young ...

Chances are, the school biology class activity you remember best is dissection — cutting apart a frog or a fish reeking of formaldehyde. Well, biology is evolving, and so is the teaching of it: New ...