Nobel prize awarded for ‘click chemistry’ – an environmentally friendly method of building molecules: The 2022 Nobel prize for Chemistry has been awarded to a trio for developing click chemistry, an environmentally friendly method for rapidly joining molecules to develop cancer treatments, create materials and illuminate the workings of cells. Carolyn R. Bertozzi from Stanford …
AI can reliably spot molecules on exoplanets – and might one day even discover new laws of physics: Artist's impression of exoplanet KELT-11 b. Impression by Léa Changeat., Author provided Do you know what the Earth’s atmosphere is made of? You’d probably remember it’s oxygen, and maybe nitrogen. And with a little help from Google …
Nobel Prize for groundbreaking way of building molecules that made chemistry greener: List (left) and MacMillan (right) are winners of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. NobelPrize.org, CC BY-SA Benjamin List and David MacMillan, respectively from Germany and the US, will share the 10 million Swedish kronor (£870,000) Nobel prize in chemistry 2021 for their …
A Jane Austen quote encoded in plastic molecules demonstrates the potential for a new kind of data storage: Shutterstock/spainter_vfx The words “if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another” were originally published in 1814 in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park. At the time, the words were printed using revolutionary steam-powered printers that could …