Professor Hiroki Ishikawa, Head of the Immune Signal Unit

Four steps are repeated in a cycle to remove nitrogen from the air. The blue and red arrows show the changes in the flow of pressurized air through the device in each step. This process is used in the device engineered by Professor Mahesh Bandi of the Nonlinear and Non-equilibrium Physics Unit to produce concentrated medical-grade oxygen.

Chlorophyll pigment molecules pass energy from a photon until it reaches a special molecule of chlorophyll -- the reaction center. Photosynthesis' efficiency may be due to the photon energy's simultaneous exploration of every possible chlorophyll route to the reaction center, whereby it chooses the shortest path -- a phenomenon only possible under quantum conditions. After the photon reaches the reaction center molecule, it loses an electron to an electron acceptor molecule. The replacement of this lost electron causes a chain reaction that leads to the production of sugar, a plant's sustenance, and the release of oxygen. Drawing by Vanessa Schipani