For over 20 years the destructive varroa parasitic mite has devastated honeybee colonies worldwide. Many synthetic and natural compounds have been used to control this pest but until now none have ...

I’m a big-time chemical and a clue to how chemists are celebrating Earth Week this year. What molecule am I? Formic acid is the simplest carboxylic acid. Its discovery in the distillation products of ...

Under cover of darkness, Wilson Bowles loads up his 1958 Dodge pickup and heads west toward the mountains with his sleeping cargo. Bowles is carrying 20 hives of honeybees from his apiary in Boyce, Va ...

Held together by only one carbon atom, formic acid is the simplest carboxylic acid. The market for this chemical is relatively small as well—a fraction of the demand for organic acids such as ...

A reader recently asked me to write about bees. Most gardeners are aware that if ripe flowers don't get pollinated, no zucchini -- or whatever -- can happen. Fewer people realize that a huge majority ...

Flowchart of the process (above) for producing formic acid through the conversion of newly developed carbon dioxide (CO2) using Carbon Capture & Utilization (CCU), and pilot-scale process verification ...

The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), TNO, GAFT, Waterfuture, University of Twente, and DENS The new eCO2FORM project with a total of five project partners is coordinated by TNO and it aims to ...