Chemicals & Chemistry

As if we don't have enough to worry about.

Not that I'm counting, but this is my 15th Dreaded Chemistry Lesson From Hell® Reader reactions have been mixed... "You suck. Your chemistry sucks. And your car sucks."

There are so many chemicals accused of causing human cancers that it's a wonder that any of us are still breathing. Yet, we are. In fact, since 1975 rates of most cancers have been either steady or slowly declining (Figure 1).

It would seem that Russia lags a bit behind much of the world in the free speech department. Alexei Navalny, a Russian anti-corruption activist and well-known critic of President Vladimir Putin is being treated in Germany for an apparent

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I stumbled across a paper by a group of German chemists from the University of Duisburg-Essen in the journal Analytical Chemistry which left me with mixed feelings.

The monster explosion that destroyed a good bit of Beirut was caused by the detonation of more than 2,700 tons of the fertilizer

From all around the country I hear from friends and colleagues who are bored out of their minds, scared half to death, or both. And, who could blame them? COVID COVID COVID COVID COVID COVID. We need a distraction.

I recently wrote about two products, both Lysol sprays, which got the nod from the EPA to make an anti-COVID claim, but noted that there