A freshly brewed mug of tea is the product of many serendipities: ancient human ingenuity, meticulous harvesting, global trade and a whole lot of chemistry. In her new book “Steeped: The Chemistry of ...

Billions of cups of tea are drunk each day making it the world’s most popular beverage. Perhaps more impressive, the molecular world of tea contains more than a thousand different chemical compounds, ...

Pinkies up! At 7 p.m. tonight, Seven Cups, the tea shop at 1882 South Pearl Street, will present “Are There Tannins in My Tea?,” a talk in which tea expert Donna Fellman will discuss the chemistry of ...

Penn Museum buried 19 Black Philadelphians whose skulls were part of the Morton Cranial Collection, which contained the bones of over a thousand skulls, many thought to be enslaved people, which were ...

The research team looks at the chemical composition of tea, as well as more consumer-oriented factors such as taste and mouth-feel (the tea tasting term for texture). They hope to use their findings ...

The tea in your cabinet likely has vague instructions about how long to steep the leaves. Bigelow, for instance, suggests two to four minutes for black tea, and one to three minutes for green tea.

Michelle Francl has always been a tea drinker. But her scientific interest began brewing in 2020 on #ChemTwitter when @andrechemist posted a musing: Are tetrahedral tea bags really any better?

Tea has long been synonymous with good health, and for good reason. True teas—brews made from leaves of Camellia sinensis, aka the tea plant—are packed with antioxidants, which are potent ...