Professor Mario Markus, scientist, artist, author, and poet, talks about what science can offer to art and how art can benefit science

Poetry and Chemistry

Reversible Wound Closure
Dissolvable dendritic thioester hydrogel for sealing wounds

Super-Stretchy Electronics
Highly stretchable fiber-shaped supercapacitor based on carbon nanotubes

Sweet Poison
Star fruit neurotoxin identified

Frederick Sanger (1918 – 2013)
Frederick Sanger, only person who has been awarded two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, passed away yesterday

From the Ocean into the Reactor
New sorbents efficiently extract uranium from seawater

The Falling Walls Conference
The tremendous possibilities arising for mankind were presented in a single day

75th Anniversary: Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD)
Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was first synthesized November 16, 1938, by Albert Hofmann

Growing Gallium Nitride Crystals
Understanding the ammonothermal method for growing GaN crystals

Early Detection of Cancer
Fluorophore-labeled cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors for the noninvasive detection of tumors