Chemistry sets used to be awesome. Today, a lot of them suck. But the kit pictured here (which, with 49 days left in its campaign, has already been successfully funded on Kickstarter) comes fully ...

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 ...

A Stanford researcher reinvents the chemistry set completely in the form of an inexpensive gizmo modeled after a hand-crank music box. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news ...

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 ...

We try not to share too many crowd funding projects, but when a tipster sent us to this Heirloom Chemistry Set we knew some would-be chemistry hackers might just want to see it! [John Farrell Kuhns] ...

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 ...

If you would like to teach your children more about physics, chemistry and biology you may be interested in the Quantum STEM Set, designed to provide the ultimate chemistry set for your learning needs ...

Toy fads come and go. That’s what a fad is, after all. The chemistry set has ridden the ups and downs of America’s scientific achievements for more than a century. It’s inspired Nobel Prize winners, ...

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We try not to share too many crowd funding projects, but when a tipster sent us to this Heirloom Chemistry Set we knew some would-be chemistry hackers might just want to see it! [John Farrell Kuhns] ...