In my last blog post, I talked about Frances Arnold’s work on the directed evolution of enzymes, which won her half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2018. The other half of the prize went to George Smith and Sir Gregory Winter for the ...
“Some people breed cats and dogs. I breed molecules.” – Frances Arnold, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2018 Last week, it was announced that the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry had been awarded to three scientists: Frances Arnold, for the ...
Yesterday morning, much of the UK woke up to snow. It was all very exciting, and much fun was had by all; the cats hated it; we built a comely snow wench. But where does snow come from? Why don’t we get more of it when it’s cold? And ...
On Friday night last week, I set out with the express intention of staying up late to watch the Orionids. I was disappointed. We had thick cloud cover and heavy rain. The sky might have been beautifully dark, but I couldn’t see a ...
Why is the sky broken? That is the question my cats spent much of Monday asking me. Why is the sky broken? What is wrong with it? The eldest of the cats sat as close as he could to the middle of our house and growled at it – and ...
Last week, the Nobel Prizes for 2017 were announced. The Chemistry Prize went to three scientists for what Scientific American termed “Capturing Proteins in Action”. But why is this important? Especially for the Chemistry Prize? ...
