This week, The Alchemist heads for the stars via Chile’s Atacama Desert, discovers that an old and putatively discredited theory of how we smell he discussed almost two decades ago might yet turn out to part of the olfactory process, and learns how an international team is attempting to navigate the chemical islands of stability. In the world of molecular electronics, crystalline caffeine looks like a flexible choice and a lateral discovery in cancer research might one day make nylon green. Finally, this weeks award goes to a University of Minnesota chemist working on the molecular messengers produced by blood platelets.
via The Alchemist Newsletter: Sep 28, 2012 — Welcome to ChemWeb.