Oxygen has been the most important gas in our search for life among the cosmos thus far. On Earth, we have it in abundance ...

The advent of modern antibiotics contributed enormously to the dramatic extension of human lifespan since their discovery by virtue of their lethal and selective action against pathogenic microbes.

Polymer synthesis, also called polymerization, is the process by which monomers (small molecules) are covalently bonded to form a (usually long) polymer chain or network. Poly(para-phenylene) chains ...