Google Trends says “how to make a bubbling cauldron” is a breakout search in October 2026, which in Google’s own definition means it grew by more than 5000%. The classic answer is...
Road salt for the 2026–27 winter is scarce and expensive. In the Pittsburgh area a regional buying group received one bid out of four major suppliers, at $152 a ton against $88.32...
Citric acid imported into the United States now sits under trade cases against six origins. On 26 August 2026 the U.S. Department of Commerce preliminarily found citric acid from India sold at...
On 13 October 2026 EPA published a final rule (91 FR 64774) that moves the compliance date for Clean Water Act hazardous substance Facility Response Plans from 1 June 2027 to 1...
On 15 September 2026 the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated EPA’s 2024 methylene chloride rule in East Fork Enterprises v. EPA, No. 24-60227. The court held that TSCA...
Real giant squid (Architeuthis) float on ammonium, not air. A 1979 study in the Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK analysed a giant squid caught alive off Newfoundland and...
On 9 October 2026 the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service forecast Florida’s 2026–27 orange crop at 10.0 million boxes, down 23 percent from the 12.95 million boxes of the season before, after...
The US Food and Drug Administration’s proposed rule on substances “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS), published on 11 August 2026 (91 FR 51834, docket FDA-2025-N-3262), would make GRAS notices mandatory. It would...
On 25 September 2026 BASF confirmed exploratory talks about a possible takeover of Evonik Industries, the German company that reports more than one million metric tons a year of hydrogen peroxide capacity...
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, announced on 7 October 2026, went to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for showing how a chemical reaction can make one mirror image of a...
On 1 October 2026 the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office indicted six South Korean chemical makers (LG Chem, OCI, Lotte Fine Chemical, Aekyung Chemical, PKC and Unid) and dozens of their current...
A deep eutectic solvent (DES) is a liquid made by mixing a hydrogen-bond acceptor, usually choline chloride, with a hydrogen-bond donor such as urea, glycerol or ethylene glycol. Choline chloride melts at...
Western Lake Erie’s 2026 cyanobacteria bloom was still thick between Toledo and Monroe in late September, which has people asking whether the 1970s phosphate bans failed. They did not. In 1967 detergents...
Update, 7 October 2026: The prize went to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai “for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis,” not to any of the three...
Chlorine, caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) and hydrochloric acid come out of the same chlor-alkali cell, so their supply moves together. Running salt brine through a cell gives 1.128 tonnes of sodium hydroxide...
On July 1, 2026 the EPA released draft guidance for reducing risk from PFOA and PFOS in biosolids (memo signed June 29, 2026, docket EPA-HQ-OW-2026-2509). It is voluntary. It recommends source control...
On 22 September 2026 Ineos began mothballing its three acetyls plants at Saltend, Hull, which the company describes as Europe’s last world-scale acetyls units. The site lists capacity for 500,000 tonnes a...
A 2026 paper in the Journal of Chemical Education, led by Mark Elliott at Cardiff University, argues that the inductive effect in a neutral organic molecule is effectively limited to one bond,...
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