The film details the process of soap making, starting with Carl Mason's laboratory demonstration using fat and sodium hydroxide (lye). It explains the chemical reaction known as saponification, where ...

Thousands of years ago, our ancestors discovered something that would clean their bodies and clothes. As the story goes, fat from someone’s meal fell into the leftover ashes of a fire. They were ...

Matt Leevy with Innovation lab at Notre Dame has another fun and easy experiment, this time making bubbles! Since bubble solution can run out very quickly, especially in warmer weather, Leevy has a ...

(KWTX) - In this week’s episode of Degrees of Science, we talk with a professor at Virginia Tech who led researchers in developing a new method for upcycling ...