Nickel gallium sulfide (NiGa₂S₄) behaves as a highly unusual "liquid" magnetic material at near absolute zero, according to Japanese and US researchers. Read David Bradley's spin on the work in his chemistry news column.

Japanese chemists have used a natural approach to construct self-organizing spherical networks of organic molecules. Such supramolecular structures might be useful as catalysts, sensor molecules, or as molecular sieves. Read on in the latest issue of Spotlight, the physical sciences webzine produced by David Bradley and www.PSIgate.ac.uk