Chemists like playing with molecules. There’s a lot more to it than that, but the chemical meaning packed into those balls and sticks make it satisfying and intriguing to manipulate a molecular model.

Many animals have highly developed senses, such as vision in carnivores, touch in mice, and hearing in bats. New research from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute has uncovered a brain molecule that can ...

The so-called homochirality of life – the fact that all biomolecules in living organisms only ever occur in one of two mirror-image forms – has puzzled a number of scientific luminaries, from the ...