Reactions is back with volume four of its popular Chemistry Life Hacks series, with tips on how to de-skunk your dog, clean your kitchen and supercharge your washing machine

In this reactions video, John A. Conkling, PhD, shows how the familiar rockets and other neat products that light up the night sky all represent chemistry in action

The Reactions team puts its nose into everyone's favorite breakfast food

Researchers ditch approximations, find small-scale structures produce important effects using new computer codes

Why scientists aren't happy about the decision

Team now wants to examine whether medications such as anti-inflammatory creams can stop the virus establishing an infection if used quickly enough 

In order to provide clear, safe tap water it is necessary to remove particles called colloids from raw water

“This phenomenon can vary sea level by as much as 10 cm along the Colombian and Venezuelan coast," researcher says

Redefinition will remove a nagging uncertainty in the official kilogram’s mass

Standard laboratory courses in which students carry out classical experiments to recreate established results did not effectively engage STEM students

Team plans to continue studying fruit flies to better understand the connection between human disease genes and muscle function

By reconstructing past global warming and the carbon cycle on Earth 56 million years ago, researchers have used computer modeling to estimate the potential perspective for future global warming