This brief introduction to organic solar cells, and their potential for a very bright future (cheesy – I know), recently surfaced on Vimeo. I like it. More scientists should go out and make short and snappy video clips about their research and post it online for all to see.

And yeah, I will be returning [...]

When I first saw compounds 22 and 23 (reference in Figure 2), I associated them with hieroglyphs, but as I carried on they struck me more as typical results of draw-a-person tests that they give four-year-olds (Figure 1).

Figure 1. a) Hieroglyphs b) Combined head and body, age 4½

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To all friends and ex-colleagues at AstraZenenca, I am so sorry.

This is still too big to grasp. Allow me for now to recycle an anonymous comment posted at Biofind:

“Lions led by donkeys.”

Update Feb 3rd: Proceed directly to Chemjobber’s The Layoff Project. Seriously, the [...]