If legend is to be believed, three disparate social forces in early 20th-century America – the temperance movement, the rise of car culture, and the Scots-Irish culture of the South – collided with ...

I would like to comment on your guest editorial in the Feb. 13, 2023, issue by Michael McCoy re chemical comeback stories we like (page 2). In the editorial, he says one of his first stories for C&EN, ...

A large, raised, spherical tank reads "I'm green." Braskem is already making ethylene and derivatives from ethanol at scale in Brazil. Credit: Braskem Humans have a complicated relationship with ...

Chemists have extended a powerful molecule-building method -- called C-H activation -- to the broad class of chemicals known as alcohols. Scripps Research chemists have extended a powerful ...

Folks have been experimenting with ethanol in modern combustion engines even when they weren't so modern. Nicolaus Otto, the inventor of the traditional four-cycle engine, used it to power one of his ...