Hal Harris

Have you ever heard of "Red Mercury"? If so, it was probably in a spy novel or movie, not a chemistry textbook. Not everyone has been writing it off as fiction, however.

It is unusual that an article in a mass-market magazine includes the names and even the structures of chemical compounds.  “Sad Pink Monkey Blues” not only does so, but within a month of its publication become the first six references in the Wikipedia article on amfonelic acid (AFA).  AFA is a psychotropic drug that also has antibiotic activity, and it is

This book is not about chemistry, and it probably is the most "literary" book that I have written about in these pages.  It is a beautiful story about the lives of a blind French girl, Marie-Laure, who escapes during the Nazi occupation of France with her father, the master locksmith of the Paris Museum of Natural History, to St.

NASA’s "One Year Mission", which seeks to make physiological comparisons between astronaut Scott Kelly and his twin, former astronaut Mark Kelly, has provided impetus for more speculation about human exploration of Mars.

Fifteen years ago (February 3, 2000), I chose as a "Hal's Pick" an article ("Medicine on Mars" by Jerome Groopman)in the New Yorker magazine about the challenges that would have to be overcome in order to put humans on Mars.