Researchers at the University of St Andrews have revealed that they have found a key to unlocking an 80-year-old chemical ...

A new type of OLED can generate left- or right-handed circularly polarized light from just one form of light-emitting ...

Scientists at the University of St Andrews have discovered a molecular “reshuffle”, a breakthrough that addresses a major ...

Researchers at the University of St Andrews have uncovered a long‑elusive molecular "reshuffle," a breakthrough that tackles ...

A way to electrically modify the chirality of organic–inorganic hybrid materials, in which chiral molecules adsorb onto ...

Light that twists as it travels and materials whose internal order is knotted like a pretzel are starting to collide in the ...

Altermagnets are a newly recognized class of antiferromagnets whose magnetic structure behaves very differently from what is ...

RIKEN researchers have discovered how right-handed molecules in our cells can give rise to cells that are not symmetrical ...

A straightforward asymmetric strategy has led to the creation of elusive nitrogen stereocentres. The carefully designed intramolecular reaction used substrate engineering to overcome the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. After her adventures in Wonderland, the fictional Alice stepped through the mirror above her fireplace in Lewis Carroll’s 1871 novel ...

Terahertz light has the ability to control solids at the atomic level, forming chiral structures of left- and right-handedness. Credit: Zhiyang Zeng (MPSD), edited Researchers have discovered a method ...

Chirality is a fundamental property of matter that determines many biological, chemical and physical phenomena. Chiral solids, for example, offer exciting opportunities for catalysis, sensing and ...