Reconstructing accurately how the parts of a complex molecular are held together knowing only how the molecule distorts and breaks up. This was the challenge taken on by a research team led by SISSA’s ...

Previous Spitzer studies have indicated the formation of complex molecules in the Helix Nebula.

First identified in the early 19th century, the Helix Nebula is one of the closest to Earth, located about 650 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. Astronomers have long studied it ...

In particular, the scientists studied how a DNA double helix unzips when translocated at high velocity through a nanopore, reconstructing fundamental DNA thermodynamic properties from the sole speed ...