Kurt Gödel on the nature of the human mind

Peridotite xenolith, San Carlos サンカルロスのカンラン岩捕獲岩

Huge congratulations to Len Barbour and welcome to the UK! news.lincoln.ac.uk/2025/01/20/5m-…

Check out our recent paper in J. Am. Chem. Soc. showing how H-bonds accelerate O2 reactivity in Fe-TPA complexes. Great job Andrew, Jessi, and Writhabrata - a long time in the making! Michigan Chemistry Michigan Research #2ndsphere4life #O2 pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

The Sahara desert gets a massive amount of solar energy daily! It could be used to extract water from the atmosphere and water the desert! Terraforming the Sahara and building homes is easier than on Mars! Elon Musk should invest in this, it would make our planet more habitable

I brought back the dire lotus from extinction by using CRISPR in Arabidopsis! Same Arabidopsis thaliana species, just four mutations..

"An expert is someone who has made all possible errors once – George Sheldrick" doi.org/10.1107/S20532… IUCr #crystallography #education

Few people know about this brutal deforestation technique called “correntão”, where tractors with huge chains raze the land cutting trees, destroying long standing ecosystems on a whim. If we don’t give value to nature, we’ll turn Earth into a desert 😕

Thin-film diffraction data collected on a Rigaku Synergy diffractometer. The sample is a Ta30 film deposited on a (110) sapphire substrate.

I find it interesting prime numbers are an emergent property of nature: you don't expect them to appear by adding one to itself! Also, molecules have integer spin, a useful test whether a chemist’s proposed structure is correct: whether it has an even or odd number of electrons.

Solar System a perspective from the Earth. These diagrams show the paths traced by Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn as seen from Earth.

The orbits of the planets as seen from Earth. Notice the five-fold symmetry of Venus

Experimental charge density maps of metal–ligand complexes can appear to contradict MO theory: at first glance orbitals seem to avoid donor atoms. Like a lock and key, the electron-deficient regions align with lone pairs to form attractive electrostatic interactions.

Normally I do not post political thoughts, but to everyone in Congress who passed Trumps tax bill: Shame on you!

The National Weather Service agency that should have been responsible for giving warnings ahead of the floods in Texas that have killed at least 50 people (including 15 children) had gone through massive job cuts in the months prior to the disaster.

The Trump Administration has cancelled the research grant of America's foremost mathematician, in case you had any lingering doubt as to whether or not they were committed to actually advancing science.

A little late, but excited to share our recent article out in JACS! We show an expedient synthesis of bicyclo[1.1.1]pentanes using two sequential diazo reactions. This work would not hav been possible without Duc Ly. Enjoy!pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Cooling of this sample induces a phase transition that causes the crystal to disintegrate or maybe even leap off the mount. It happens around 150 K, while the crystal remains stable above that. I mounted multiple crystals and observed the same behavior each time!

Happy to see that two of our recent total syntheses are among the top three Most Read Articles J. Am. Chem. Soc.; Among the top five, three are from Emory Emory Chemistry Emory College Emory University and four are total synthesis papers Total Synthesis! Cheers! pubs.acs.org/action/showMos…

☄️ #3I/ATLAS comet update! On 3 October, our ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) turned its eyes towards interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passed close to Mars. Together with Mars Express, ExoMars TGO had the closest view of the comet of all of our spacecraft. It looked towards the