Feel like teaching a lesson to that pinhead-sized worm that's been bothering you? According to a study in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, a material called dithienylethene plus a blast ...

Scientists have stopped a tiny worm like a deer in the headlights, paralyzing it with a stream of light. The mechanism that induces the incapacitation isn’t yet clear, but the paralysis occurs after ...

In an advance with overtones of Star Trek phasers and other sci-fi ray guns, scientists in Canada are reporting development of an internal on-off “switch” that paralyzes animals when exposed to a beam ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

In nature, control of chirality at different hierarchical levels is manifested in processes such as protein folding and enzyme catalysis. Efforts at achieving similar control in synthetic systems are ...