This Little Piggy . . . Glows In The Dark

And is a product of a breakthrough that has netted two Americans and a Japanese the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. More here.

Then there is this year's Ig Nobel Prize for Chemistry, awarding one-half of the prize to a team of scientists for discovering that Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide and the other half of the prize to a second team for proving that it is not. More here.