The mid-nineteenth century saw the development of a radical new direction in chemistry: instead of simply analyzing existing molecules, chemists began to synthesize them—including molecules that did ...

A new mechanism steers diodes made of a single enantiomer to emit light of right- and left-handed polarizations ...

Chemistry is a branch of science that involves the study of the composition, structure and properties of matter. Often known as the central science, it is a creative discipline chiefly concerned with ...

An octopus's mesmerizing skin can flit from orange to red in the blink of an eye, partly thanks to a natural pigment called ...