In a discovery recently published in Nature, MIT chemists led by Professor Alison Wendlandt have developed a precision ...

Fullerene's perfect symmetry turns a long-standing weakness of molecular electronics into a programmable three-state switch.

When chemists design drug candidates, shape matters enormously. Many active pharmaceutical ingredients contain branched ...

Cosmologists have an embarrassing problem: we don’t know what shape the universe is. The cosmos has three possible geometries—positively curved like a sphere, flat like an infinite plane or negatively ...

You may have heard that you should try to avoid eating too many simple sugars, but what does that mean? What are simple sugars? Are simple sugars carbohydrates? To answer both questions: simple sugars ...

Miniature people have been a staple of science fiction and fantasy going all the way back to Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, and shrunken characters have taken the spotlight in everything from ...