Irritate a male platypus during breeding season, and you may end up trapped by its stumpy hind legs, threatened by a set of sharp spurs that are armed with venom. The painful poison hobbles male ...

Biochemist have now created mirror-image enzymes -- so-called Spiegelzymes -- out of nucleic acids. The Spiegelzymes can be used in living cells for the targeted cutting of natural nucleic acids. The ...

The catalytic processes that facilitate the production of many chemicals and fuels could become much more environmentally friendly thanks to a breakthrough achieved by researchers from Lehigh and Rice ...