Chemistry

Since chemistry is the basis of all things, we encounter it in one way or another every day. We listen to doctors’ recommendations, read instructions for med...

According to popular legend, D. I. Mendeleev discovered his famous Periodic Law in a dream. Historians of science have long refuted this apocrypha, but they ...

Why do some smells seem wonderful to us, while others disgust us? Are there any smells in the world that are always perceived as good or bad by all members o...

If we could look at the world around us with enormous magnification, we would see that it consists of many molecules that are constantly busy with something....

This book is about pesticides, but do not rush to put it aside: it was written not only for specialists, but also for everyone who is interested in the struc...

In the form of short stories, notes and answers to questions, information from various sections of chemistry and episodes from the life of chemist scientists...

The paths of Russian science in the 20th century. and the fate of its creators - this is the content of the memoirs of Academician A.N. Nesmeyanov, covering ...

Informative answers to all questions of the “Inorganic Chemistry” course in accordance with the State educational standard.

Ever since oxygen was discovered in the 1770s, scientists have debated its properties. This dispute continues to this day. Some herald oxygen as the elixir o...

Informative answers to all questions of the course “Organic Chemistry” in accordance with the State educational standard.

The book by the famous popularizer of science Pyotr Obraztsov and his classmate at the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University, the famous poet Bakhy...

What can humanity as a society and a species expect from biotechnology? Francis Fukuyama tries to answer this question in his book “Our Posthuman Future.” Fr...