The golden age of computational materials science gives me a disturbing feeling of déjà vu

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Graphene, a wonder material which was made by scientists using a version of Scotch tape (Image: Wikipedia) I was a mere toddler in ...
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Enthalpy-entropy compensation and water networks

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Enthalpy-entropy compensation (EEC) is an endlessly interesting phenomenon; it's the kind of topic that makes scientists either roll ...
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Barry Werth on the cost of new drugs

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Barry Werth who wrote the swashbuckling book about the creation of Vertex ( sequel out in February) has an excellent piece (also highlig...

Molecular dynamics: I have a bad feeling about this.

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Computer models of chemical and biological systems are not reality; rather they are what I call “invitations to reality”. They ...
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Molecular Dynamics: Manna from heaven or spawn of Satan?

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This is the question that Anthony Nicholls of OpenEye Scientific Software will try to answer tomorrow at the OpenEye offices in Cambridge,...
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A discussion on Big Science, Small Science and the future of all science

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Tomorrow I have the privilege of joining a  panel discussion  on Big Science with three very distinguished scientists: Nobel Laureate Ste...

Arsenic DNA, chemistry and the problem of differing standards of proof in cross-disciplinary science

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Arsenic-based linkages in DNA would be unstable and would quickly break, a fact suspected by chemists for years (Image: Johannes Wilbe...
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Computational chemistry wins 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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An equation for a force field, a computational chemistry model that uses simple terms and parameters from experiment to calculate the...

Nobel Prize for membrane vesicle trafficking

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Randy Sheckman, James Rothman and Thomas  Südhof  have been awarded a well-deserved and long-predicted Nobel Prize for their work on mem...

Phil Baran keeps the dream of classical organic chemists alive

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I am very happy to note that organic chemist Phil Baran from Scripps is one of this year's recipients of the MacArthur "Genius...
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