Umair Irfan was a correspondent at Vox writing about climate change, energy policy, and science. He is a regular contributor to the radio program Science Friday. Prior to Vox, he was a reporter for ...

The pH is a negative logarithmic scale, which measures the molar concentration of hydrogen ions from 1 to 10 14 ions. It therefore has no unit of measurement. Numbers on a negative logarithmic scale ...

Beer wasn’t always so consistant. Even the same producer’s brews could be wildly different in quality (Getty/iStock) Do you remember any chemistry from your schooldays? Dipping litmus paper into a ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I remember learning about acids and bases (or ...

Google celebrated the life of Søren Peder Lauritz (S.P.L.) Sørensen on Tuesday with an interactive homepage doodle that pays tribute to the Danish chemist. While Sørensen was working as the chemical ...