The rally monkey came to national and world-wide attention during the Angels' appearance in the 2002 World Series, again against the San Francisco Giants. In the sixth game, the Angels were playing at home, but were trailing the series 3-2 and facing elimination.
Meet PG5, the largest stable synthetic molecule ever made. With a diameter of 10 nanometres and a mass equal to 200 million hydrogen atoms, this huge molecule festooned with tree-like appendages, paves the way to sophisticated structures capable of storing drugs within their folds, or bonding to a wide variety of different substances.
DNA is the largest known molecule. A single unbroken strand can contain millions of atoms. When DNA is released from a cell it typically breaks up into short strand fragments. These smaller fragments have a slightly negative electric charge. Salt ions, common in many solutions, are attracted to the negative charges on the DNA fragments. By controlling the salt concentration of the solution, DNA can remain fragmented or become very âstickyâ and form large globs of molecular material.