These can be found in the center of a sunflower, a snail’s shell, the base of an unopened pinecone, and seen as a fern just begins to unfurl its leaves. On a larger scale, this symmetry in nature can ...

"In nature and in pharmacology there are multiple examples in which the two enantiomers have different properties. A case in point is thalidomide (a drug administered as a sedative and to relieve ...

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However, the researchers plowed through and managed to image the enzyme’s structure. They discovered that the key to its fractal formation lies in violating conventional symmetry seen in protein ...

The Nanodevices group at CIC nanoGUNE shows that breaking a material’s inversion symmetry can shatter Ohm’s law, unleashing ...