Chemistry’s most spectacular contribution to World War I, apparently not yet used in World War II—chlorine, phosgene, diphosgene, chlorpicrin, diphenylchlorarsine, mustard—were all ...

After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine. Popular Science magazine shifted to an all-digital format a couple of years ago, and now even that’s gone.

In yet another sign of its decline, Popular Science has stopped publishing its online magazine, three years after it shut its storied print edition, which began in 1872.

The new fabric material contains nanoscale fibers. These fibers have a special property: they can degrade most chemical warfare agents. The fibers are capable of breaking down toxic chemicals into ...

Kelsey D. Atherton is a military technology journalist who has contributed to Popular Science since 2013. He covers uncrewed robotics and other drones, communications systems, the nuclear ...

A mini version of lab equipment that identifies chemicals in suspect substances could someday help perform on-the-ground testing for chemical warfare agents. Collecting samples of sarin, VX or ...

Theodore W. Gray, a best-selling author and eclectic science writer, is the 2011 recipient of the American Chemical Society's prestigious James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry ...

Protein that could prevent chemical warfare attack created. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 09 / 220901135845.htm ...

Comment and Technology We must wake up to the threats of new chemical weapons. Chemical warfare is centuries old, but rapid advances in science could create deadly new weapons.

Competition may have a high cost for at least one species of tropical seaweed. Researchers examining the chemical warfare taking place on Fijian coral reefs have found that one species of seaweed ...

The scope of WWI's chemical weaponry was unlike anything seen on the battlefield before. Over the course of the war — which lasted from July 28, 1914, to Nov. 11, 1918 — about 3,000 chemicals ...

Oct. 30, 2020 — People who have been exposed to chemical warfare agents (CWAs) feel uncertain, decades after the exposure, about their survival and ability to build a family, a new study shows ...