Living in a material world Imagine the situation: you're a chemist, trying hard every day to make a new material. Maybe you add something different to your reaction ingredients, or maybe you just heat them for a bit longer, or to a higher temperatur...

With the precision design of superalloy materials (as written about here by David Collins and Bryce Conduit), we are able to manufacture materials capable of withstanding the extreme conditions inside a jet engine where temperatures routinely exce...

Every biological chemical process in the universe would be impossibly slow without an enzyme, a biological catalyst, to facilitate it and speed things along. Even the seemingly simple processes of digestion and processing sugar would literally take ...