Beer – From Yeast to Feast
Even though I don’t like beer, it hasn’t escaped my attention that the world’s most famous beer festival, the Oktoberfest, will start on Saturday. For 16 days, several million people from around the...
View ArticleMake it warm, make it right
If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, you will have probably stowed away your bathing suits, shorts and bikinis. Let’s face it: Winter is quickly approaching. I’ve already turned up the heating...
View ArticleA formula for hydrogen generation!
Hi everybody, in this post I would like to show you how tiny nanoparticles can provide us with a new way of energy harvesting. This is quite important because every form of life or technology is based...
View ArticleThe first green chemist: Giacomo Ciamician and the powers of plants
In the early 1900s, an Italian chemist, enraptured with the fast-developing worlds of physics and chemistry, looked towards a glowing future. In this he was far from alone – in 1909, Marinetti’s...
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