How the simplest molecule – H2 – governed the cosmological development of our universe

Thirdhand smoke re-emitted from surfaces could pose long-term health risk while firsthand smoke does damage in minutes

Simple, energy-efficient process for producing high-quality fuels from biomass

Holes that are too small to transmit light, can be encouraged to do so with dyes and photon-plasmon coupling

A micro-supercapacitor that can be woven like a thread could lead to clothing that creates and stores energy

Material in which capped covalent bonds repeatedly reattach allows fully separated pieces to be fused back together

Nanoparticle test kit shows how nanoparticles of different size disperse in tumor tissue in real-time

Gold cyclization reaction provides important building blocks for pharmaceuticals

Largest synthetic macromolecule with defined chemical structure, resembles a virus but is formed from a branched polymer

Gas-phase carbonic acid should not exist according to textbooks, but it has now been isolated and examined spectroscopically