An Australian chemist just won the Nobel prize. Here’s how his work is changing the world

Richard Robson was struck by an idea in 1989. Decades later, his story shows the importance of fundamental science.

Metal-organic frameworks: Nobel-winning tiny ‘sponge crystals’ with an astonishing amount of inner space

That enormous surface area is one of the unique things that make MOFs so powerful, and it comes from the nanoscale pores – tiny molecular rooms that can trap, separate, transform or transport gases, ...