Researchers didn't think they could test minuscule samples of materials and grasp their properties.

FORBES: Upstart Symyx is shaking up the stodgy chemicals industry.

Merck is using Symyx's tools to test forms of drug candidates to determine their physical properties before giving them to humans.

FORBES: Upstart Symyx is shaking up the stodgy chemicals industry.

The first order of business for LHC scientists when the collisions resume in 2015 will be to test the Higgs that's been discovered, to see if it shows any of the properties predicted by supersymmetry, according to Dr Wells.

BBC: LHC upgrade to open up 'new realm of particle physics'

So far Dr Ausubel and his colleagues have managed to test around 37, 000 compounds using their new method, and they have found 28 that have antibiotic properties.

ECONOMIST: A better way to find novel antibiotics