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I couldn’t resist to share this graph. Absolutely fantastic results!

For decades DNA has been regarded as a potential building block for molecular electronics, but random sequences of DNA vary in their conductivity — charge transfer through G–C (guanine–cytosine) pairs is much faster than through A–T (adenine–thymine) pairs. Charge can migrate along an A–T rich sequence by ‘hopping’ between G–C pairs, but this decreases its electrical conductivity.

Do you remember the movie Fifth Element? Here is a nice quotation:

Much of the last week I spent at Sanibel Symposium. The Sanibel Symposium is an international scientific conference in quantum chemistry, solid-state physics, and quantum biology. It has been organized by the Quantum Theory Project at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, every winter since 1960. It was founded by Per-Olov Löwdin who was …

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth on 12 February 1809 and the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection‘, the British Royal Mint has struck a series of limited edition proof and uncirculated collector £2 coins.