After years of searching, the ORIGINAL Solvay 1927 conference photo has been discovered.
My sci-fi thriller, LAZARUS, is now out on both Smashwords and Amazon.
Category Archives: Science
Neural Simulations Hint at the Origin of Brain Waves
Here is an article and video describing EPFL’s amazing Blue Brain Project and their latest findings. This is what I like to call ‘next-level stuff’.
A new method for clicking molecules together
I have once again endeavoured to put the “art” in “article”.
Have you ever heard of “click” chemistry? No? It’s really cool, and it just got cooler.
Yes. Cool. I know what that word means.
[geek sigh]
— Nik
Mirror images and complex molecules
New article on EPFL!
This time around, it’s chemistry. Specifically, making scaffolds for anti-dementia and anti-cancer drugs with cheap and simple materials. The secret? Breaking C-H bonds and selecting enantiomers.
CAN YOU HANDLE IT?
Pump up the solar power
Yeah. It’s article time again.
Published in Nature this week, Michael Grätzel’s team at EPFL boosted the power-conversion efficiency of their famous solar cells up to 15%. If you don’t know why that’s awesome, read this.
The Upturned Microscope 