Think of bismuth as the Cinderella of the periodic table. Because it is surrounded by its toxic stepsiblings—the elements lead, tin, antimony, tellurium, and polonium—chemists often overlook ...

Life is complicated, and not just in a philosophical sense. But one simple thing we know about life is that it requires ...

Surface redox centres in metal oxides play a key role in catalytic performance, and the conventional view is that the transition-metal cations dominate this behaviour. Here, the authors perform an ...