By NASA's James Webb Space Telescope   From arrival at the ESA launch Facility in Kourou French Guiana, through launch and deployment, the pages linked here are your starting point for exploring Webb’s launch and commissioning. James Webb SPACE TELESCOPE   The Insane Engineering of James Webb Telescope   A discussion hosted by Matt Burr […]

Organic Chem Basics: Diels-Alder and similar reactions The 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Dr. Benjamin List (Max PLack Institute)  and Dr. David MacMillam (Princeton University) for "the development of asymmetric organocatalysis." One of the first reactions that they found could be catalyzed by purely organic compounds was the Diels-Alder reaction. The Diels-Alder […]

Every year there are new advances in genome engineering enabled by CRISPR/Cas editing systems. In this talk, the most important and interesting news in CRISPR-based gene editing from 2021 will be […]