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Lasers, chemical reactions and the biggest explosion allowed in ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Arts Centre are among the spectacles promised at this year’s Christmas Lectures at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½.

Artificial Intelligence can be used to predict molecular wave functions and the electronic properties of molecules. This innovative AI method developed by a team of researchers at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½, the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Luxembourg, could be used to speed-up the design of drug molecules or new materials.

A molecule that protects plants from overexposure to harmful sunlight thanks to its flamenco-style twist could form the basis for a new longer-lasting sunscreen, chemists at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ have found, in collaboration with colleagues in France and Spain.

High value chemicals used to make pharmaceuticals could be made much cheaper and quicker thanks to a series of new catalysts made by scientists at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ in collaboration with GoldenKeys High-Tech Co., Ltd. in China.

One of the WHO’s three critical priority pathogens, Acinetobacter baumannii, for which new antibiotics are urgently needed is one step closer to being tackled, as researchers from the Department of Chemistry - ¹û¶³´«Ã½ have made a breakthrough in understanding the enzymes that assemble the antibiotic enacyloxin.

A space-age metal that formed part of the asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs could provide a new method of treating cancer tumours selectively using light.