What is a calorie? While most people think of calories in relation to food, calories are simply a unit of heat energy. In fact, measuring calories is essential to energy science because every chemical ...

High school teacher, Robyn Embry, discusses how to set up the apparatus for the Comparing Fuel Values investigation along with tips for safety and best practices when performing this investigation in ...

Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) is one of the most robust and convenient techniques to thermodynamically examine intermolecular interactions by detecting any reaction heat that takes place in ...

It’s a bit icky reading between the lines on this one… but it’s a fascinating experiment! In his latest Applied Science video, [Ben Krasnow] tries to measure how efficient the human body is at getting ...

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