The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013

We are delighted to congratulate Michael Levitt, F1000Prime Faculty Member in Structural Biology, on receiving the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Professor Levitt, who is currently based at the Stanford University School of Medicine and is well known for his pioneering work in computational structural biology, receives this accolade jointly with Arieh Warshel, former Faculty…

Chemical party

I know, you’re all expecting me to talk about rockstars and GQ this week. Well, that’s been done to death all over the place, so here’s something else I stumbled across—the periodic table at a party: Yeah, there are few things wrong with that (potassium should really be ripping the arms off water, for example)…

Private investigations

One of the really great things about science is its potential for self-correction. If you have an hypothesis, a result (strange or otherwise), a set of data, it can be tested by anyone. This is encouraged, in fact: when you publish you’re not just saying ‘look how clever I am’ but also ‘here’s something new!…