Custom Porous Materials Reign
Metal-organic frameworks (MOF) are new porous materials formed by assembling metal elements and organic, carbon-based bricks. This architect
Brewing Medicines
Thanks to genomics and bioinformatics, we brought together about thirty enzymes from a wide variety of different organisms, creating antican
Lead, Testimony to the Eruption of Vesuvius
Following archaeological digs, analysis of the lead pollution in sediments in the antique port of Naples proves that the region’s vast...
Binary Plastics: The Future of Digital Memory?
Storing data! The challenge of the 21st century… A few bytes written onto long chains of synthetic polymers are opening up huge...
The Art of Making Clouds
It is no longer enough to use change in state to explain cloud formation. The role of chemical and biological substances must now be...
