IT’S a chance discovery so unexpected it defies belief and threatens to
reignite debate about whether there is a scientific basis for thinking
homeopathic medicines really work.
A team in South Korea has discovered a whole new dimension to just about the
simplest chemical reaction in the book—what happens when you dissolve a
substance in water and then add more water.
Conventional wisdom says that the dissolved molecules simply spread further
and further apart as a solution is diluted. But two chemists have found that
some do the opposite: they clump together, first as clusters of molecules, then
as…
