The first chemistry sets for children included dangerous substances like uranium dust and sodium cyanide, but all that has changed. Talk to people of a certain age about chemistry sets and a nostalgic ...

Do you ever long for the good ol’ days? When a rickety school desk was enough to protect you from a nuclear blast, and chemistry sets contained real (read: deadly) chemicals? The first half of the ...

A chemistry set, designed by a bioengineer from Stanford University, costs just $5. This "chemistry set for the 21st century" was inspired by a toy music box. It is compact, yet still allows young ...

The Rolling Mill Hill section of Wilkes-Barre will never know how close it came to disaster. OK, I’ll explain. Probably all of us have tales of the Christmas gifts we wanted as children but never ...

The kit recently took first place in a contest that aims to put the fun and inspiration back into learning science. Chemistry sets today aren’t what they once were. With the old ones, you could mix ...

When Vassili Philippov was growing up in St. Petersburg, Russia, in the 1980s, he received a chemistry set as a gift. He used it a few times, but then it got pushed to the back of a shelf, never to be ...

The Newscripts gang admits to being a nostalgic bunch. We turn up the radio when 1980s synthpop is playing. We actively seek out showings of the 1940s flick “Casablanca.” And we long to play with the ...

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