August 6th
On this day in 1945, the first atomic bomb used in World War II was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The weapon, code-named “Little Boy,” was...
Carbonitride aerogels mediate the photocatalytic conversion of water
Nanochemistry meets macrostructures: Chinese scientists report the synthesis of a macroscopic aerogel from carbonitride nanomaterials which is an excellent catalyst for the water-splitting reaction under...
August 4th
Nicolas-Jacques Conté was born on this day in 1755. French inventor who devised a method of manufacturing pencil leads by mixing a finely powdered...
August 1st
Tadeus Reichstein died on this day in 1996. Swiss chemist who, with Philip S. Hench and Edward C. Kendall, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for...
Why does water expand when it freezes?
Usually, when things freeze - in other words turn from a liquid into a solid - they shrink or get smaller. This is because, normally,...
