Topic: Innovation

In this episode, we’re talking the science of airbags protect you in a car accident.

In this video, learn how leather is made using techniques that are thousands of years old.

In this episode, we visited McFadden Art Glass in Baltimore, Maryland, to learn about the chemistry of this ancient material.

In this episode, we break down the chemistry of cryogenic and reanimating a frozen corpse.

In this episode, we learn how blacksmithing is just as much chemistry as it is an artform.

In this episode of Reactions, learn how you, too, can make magnetic and colored slime!

In this video, find out great lengths used to make gunpowder during the Revolutionary War.

Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank, and Richard Henderson are the 2017 Nobel Prize winners for their development of cryo-electron microscopy.

Lint from fleece and other synthetic fibers is getting washed down the drain and entering aquatic ecosystems.

Headlines keep on popping up in the news about exploding cellphones and we're covering the chemistry on why batteries go boom!

The products we use every day leave behind chemical footprints. Learn how and why researchers are now studying those trails.

In the second edition of our accidental discoveries series, get to know the stories of how TNT, dynamite and air bags were discovered totally by accident.

Sophia Cai explains how scientists, regulators, and food makers are relying on chemistry to make sure consumers get what they pay for.

Sarah Everts explains why conservators are starting to sniff out the compounds emitted by museum art and artifacts.

Speaking of Chemistry set a course for JPL to learn about NASA’s plans for cubesats, little satellites with interplanetary aspirations.

For the Fourth of July and for all of you firework lovers out there, here’s an up close, slow motion look at the chemistry of how sparklers work.

We're hitting the road in California. Check out our first stop at Carbon, a 3-D printing startup in Silicon Valley. Join us as we learn why Carbon believes it’s poised to kick off a new era of 3-D manufacturing.

Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens with its intense plot will have you on the edge of your seat. But is it possible to create a real-life lightsaber or build a Death Star laser?

This week, in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, Reactions takes on craft beer chemistry.

Throughout the history of science, many major discoveries came accidentally.

Through the fun of Kerbal Space Program, we examine the chemistry of rockets.

Four fascinating facts about money to make you scientifically richer.

How Thomas Edison Changed The World