The Curious Wavefunction

The nice thing about Nobel Prizes is that it gets easier to predict them every year, simply because most of the people you nominate don...

I am honored and frankly a bit stunned to hear that my post on the " fundamental philosophical dilemma " of chemistry was awarde...

Here's a valuable and  comprehensive review on one of the most glaring pieces of evidence for why drug discovery is so hard - the fact ...

Just as he did previously, Prof. Erland Stevens of Davidson College is teaching a comprehensive med chem edX class that would be useful for ...

As Nobel season dawns upon us, Stu Cantrill points me to an endlessly interesting link on the Nobel website which lists nominating infor...

Peter Thiel has some provocative thoughts on biotechnology again, this time in an interview for Technology Review. I had a post earlier ...

Last week I had the immense pleasure again of having lunch with Freeman Dyson in Princeton. One of the myriad topics on the platter of in...

A while ago I wrote about the dominance of foxes over hedgehogs in chemistry. Hedgehogs love to drill deep into one topic; foxes love to...

Nature News has an interesting piece on another novel aspect of the collision of 21st century social media with 20th century scientific c...

Over the last two decades when computer-aided drug design was in development, one of the most common refrains you heard from medicinal ch...