Perfluorocubane has long interested chemists, “not only for its beautiful structure, but also for its electron acceptivity and intermolecular interactions,” Akiyama says in an email. Her team ...

The orbital (eye) socket is a set of bones that surround and protect your eye. The bones around the eye form the walls and floor — sides and bottom — of the orbital socket and vary in thickness.

Tracking exoplanets via orbital mechanics isn't easy. Plenty of variables could affect how a planet moves around its star, and determining which ones affect any given exoplanet requires a lot of ...