While learning about cryptocurrencies, I desperately needed data that I could manipulate myself to do my own plots and analyses. Here I show you how to easily get real-time and historical crypto data right in your web browser with minimal programming skills. …

Thanks to modern educational content using commodity web-based augmented reality in our moleculARweb site and in Google, students, teachers, and science communicators can now more easily see, grasp, communicate, and interact with the most complex concepts of chemistry and biology. For free, using their smartphones, tablets, and computers, in several languages. — === The new tools presented here involve contributions mainly from Fabio Cortes and other members of the Dal Peraro lab at @EPFL. ===

moleculARweb is a free-to-use website for education in chemistry and structural biology using commodity augmented reality. Browsing the activities offered by the website on regular smartphones, tablets, or computers, users can launch activities that display in augmented reality virtual objects such as molecules and other entities relevant to various fields…

Under the midnight sky, the Moon glows. It’s a world so far and yet so close. And its white face can reflect it all. Through the lens of my phone, I captured many times the moon’s glowing rapture. A portrait of a celestial being, so serene. A radiant orb, so…

Trying here a new kind of article. Please do let me know if you find it interesting! My selection from Nature: Water crisis affecting hundreds of millions of people’s access to safe water and sanitation. First UN conference on water in almost 50 years held to address the issue. Fruit…

It’s not all AlphaFold, Cryo-electron microscopy, and X-ray diffraction of crystals when it comes to studying the atomic structure of biological matter. The much-overlooked technique of nuclear magnetic resonance can fill many voids that other techniques cannot even approach. Here a brief summary of an extended article I’m writing, that should serve as introductory material for students and scientists interested in the potential of the technique for structural biology and biochemistry.

Hack-a-Mol is a “web app” (kind of complete program in the form of a regular webpage) created by Robert “Bob” Hanson, originally devised for students of cheminformatics who are learning how chemical structures are represented digitally. But as I make the point here, it’s very useful for research too. …