A chiral catalyst facilitates carbon bond formation across a large ring, yielding several edge-sharing smaller rings and offering efficient synthesis of complex polycyclic molecules.

Homo floresiensis, the enigmatic diminutive hominin from Flores, Indonesia, retains primitive wrist bones, implying that it is not closely related to modern humans.

A super-resolution imaging method that uses a family of multicolor fluorescent probes yields images of fixed cells with a spatial resolution of 20 to 30 nanometers.