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Save It for Later: Batteries Keep Us Energized
Batteries are everywhere from the cell phone in your pocket to the solar cells used to power homes. Batteries keep things running, but they come with challenges and costs.
Energizing the Future with Lithium
Nobel Prize Winner M. Stanley Whittingham talks about developing the first room temperature lithium-ion battery and how it changed battery science. He also has great advice for students and teachers.
Sustainability: What Does It Really Mean?
Sustainability: What role can chemists and engineers play in balancing the needs and wants of society with the finite resources fo the Earth?
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Fighting Frost With Ice
Late- or early-season frosts can wreak havoc on fruit orchards. Farmers use ice to protect the fragile buds from late-season frosts in the spring or fragile fruit like grapes and citrus in the fall.
Don't Sweat It: How Moisture-Wicking Fabrics Keep You Cool and Dry
If you work hard enough during sports or exercise, you are going to sweat. Whether or not you keep comfortable doing it is a matter of chemistry.
Sugar: 'White Gold' Transforming America
Producing sugar was backbreaking work for enslaved people, until an innovative chemical engineer transformed the process.
What's in Your Paintbox?
From the cave paintings of prehistoric times to the masterpieces of today, creating art with paint seems to be a fundamental urge in humans.
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