Did you know a true lemon is a hybrid of the citron and the bitter orange? Some evidence suggests that lemons originated during the 1st millennium BC in what is today's northeastern India. The origin ...

Sodium chloride, calcium chloride, lithium chloride, potassium chloride, copper(II) sulfate (1 g per salt per group) Concentrated hydrochloric acid (teacher to control and dispense small quantities or ...

Oxford researchers have found a way to visualize one of the most hidden — yet critical — components inside lithium-ion ...

Learn more on the properties of ionic compounds in this podcast. Listen to the full series on BBC Sounds. Ionic compounds have high melting and boiling points, so they are in the solid state at room ...

If you've ever watched a glass blower at work, you've seen a material behaving in a very special way. As it cools, the viscosity of molten glass increases steadily but gradually, allowing it to be ...

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

Utrecht University researchers Rodolfo Subert and Marjolein Dijkstra show in their latest study that complex three-dimensional networks in materials can emerge from nothing more than particle shape.