Catalysts are substances that promote or accelerate certain chemical reactions. Using organocatalysts (organic catalysts) as an alternative makes it unnecessary to use metal complexes often responsible for unwanted toxic impurities, something which is particularly...
Plants send signals into the atmosphere to communicate with other plants and animals: when a plant is attacked by a pathogen or a herbivore it releases certain compounds into the air that "warn" others of the imminent danger so that they can prepare themselves. These...
The music of modernity (since the eighteenth century), was based on the tradition, mainly borrowed from poetry, of associating meanings with sounds: the music could be "understood". In contrast, the formalism of the twentieth century, through the radicalisation of...
