IN an earlier publication 1 the formula of the highly active synthetic œstrogenic analogue, stilbœstrol, was contrasted with those of œstrone and chrysene. The figures in this earlier letter in NATURE ...

One of the nearly universal traits of condensed-matter physicists is their insatiable desire to find and explain new physical phenomena. As Nobel Prize winner Phil Anderson has often argued, the ...

An international team of researchers is paving the path to discovering and developing new materials capable of flipping their electrical polarization — a critical property for components in sensors, ...

Ternary intermetallic Heusler compounds, originally discovered by a German mining engineer and chemist in 1903, may show exotic topological insulator behaviour unknown to science just five years ago.