Sandwalk

Today's molecule is complicated and you may not recognize it right away from the 3D structure. It was discovered in the middle of the la...

There's been a lot of talk recently about scieintific misinformaton on the internet. I started reminiscing about what things were like w...

The development of protein structure prediction programs began fifty years ago and culminated in the remarkable success of AlphaFold , devel...

It's Tuesday so it must be time for Monday's Molecule! :-) Today's molecule is the little green ladder-like thing in the fig...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955 "for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a p...

You can use whatever tricks you want to identify today's molecule but I'll be really impressed with anyone who recognizes it right a...

Philip Ball believes that we are in the middle of a revolution in our way of thinking about how life works. His ideas are complex but part o...

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1985 "for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism" M...

Philip Ball is on a roll. He has published a new book plus several articles in popular magazines and he has appeared in a bunch of podcasts...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015. “for mechanistic studies of DNA repair” Aziz Sancar won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his ...

It's been a while since the last Monday's Molecule on May 19, 2014 but I think it's time to revive that tradition. I'll show...