Catalysis in Wonderland, Part II: An SL presentation of classic transition-metal chemistry. Abstract: Organic chemistry follows certain rules. Starting in the 1950’s, we began to find ways that transition metals (e.g. chromium, iron, nickel, rhodium, gold and many others) could bend the rules of classic organic chemistry and facilitate chemical transformations which would otherwise be […]

Big data: road to the future or just weapons of math destruction?    Big Data are like the God Janus: on the one end they offer great advantages, make our lives easier by offering us unlimited possibility to better organize our work and our everyday life; they allow us to achieve a better understanding of […]

Abstract Can the benefits of nature walks for psychological well-being and cognitive ability be replicated in a purely virtual environment? The island of Natmoud was built in the virtual world […]

The most common conception of evolution is that the hardiest survive. Darwin proposed another type of competition--that for mates within a species. When competing for mating partners the ability to […]