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Can Quantum Chemistry Simulations Help Trace the Origin of Life?

From cosmic crucibles to Earth’s primordial soups, can quantum chemistry simulations help us understand how lifeless molecules sparked life?

What’s actually going on at the molecular level when geckos get their Spider-Man on? Coarse-grained simulations provide an answer.

How can water’s hydrogen bonds have such a colossal impact on the existence of life on Earth and, potentially, everywhere else?

From Friday night experiments to the Nobel Prize, let’s walk Andre Geim’s random walk to the discovery of graphene.

Noncovalent interactions in proteins: the flexible wonders that bestow proteins the magic of three-dimensionality.

Astrochemistry has discovered over 200 molecular species in the void of space. But the hunt for the molecules of life is not over yet.

The true story of how I went from almost having to leave Berlin to contributing to the discovery of the anion-pi Interactions in proteins.