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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

One of my fondest childhood memories was of visiting the Tid-Bit in Martins Ferry, Ohio and buying out their old collection of chemistry set chemicals for 60 cents each. I bought the fun stuff like ...

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 ...

The chemistry set is an icon in the toy world. It's ignited entire generations of aspiring scientists, and more than a few experiments gone awry, but it wasn't an instant classic. In its 100 years on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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