In the past several decades, significant progress has been made in controlling molecular chirality, as evidenced by the several Nobel Prizes in chemistry awarded in this area, particularly for ...

Understanding how molecules interact with ions is a cornerstone of chemistry, with applications from pollution detection and ...

The flavonoid silymarin and one of its structural components, silibinin, are substances with documented hepatoprotective properties. Their mechanisms of action are still poorly understood. However ...

Research on cannabis was hotting up 50 years ago, and accessible lectures on the physics of matter from Nobel laureate William Bragg, in this week’s dip into Nature’s archive.

A screen of interactions between genes involved in the cell’s response to DNA damage has revealed several previously unreported ‘synthetic lethalities’, in which disrupting a pair of genes ...