Tobia Cavalli

Illustration by @sliceform Every few years, international political tensions disrupt the global supply of rare earths, and every time this results in a scramble to find more ore or to build refineries faster.1 China controls around 70% of rare-earth proce…

What are mixture experiments?

CREST (Conformer-Rotamer Ensemble Sampling Tool) is a program for exploring molecular conformations.

Rare earth elements are central to modern technology: smartphones, electric vehicles, and wind turbines all depend on them.

Scientists are trained to look forward, not back.

Glass is in windows, containers, optical fibers, lenses, and the substrates of most electronic displays.

Bush and the OSRD Vannevar Bush ran the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) during World War II.

ORCA is a quantum chemistry program for molecular electronic structure calculations, developed and maintained by Frank Neese’s research group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.

A UV-Vis spectrum records how much light a molecule absorbs at each wavelength, but it says nothing about what the molecule actually looks like.