Omar Yaghi, the winner of last year’s Nobel Prize for chemistry, has left the United States to lead a new artificial intelligence-driven research centre at China’s Tsinghua University. The 61-year-old materials scientist will head a team working on ways AI can transform the design and synthesis of new materials and shorten their development cycle “by orders of magnitude”, Tsinghua said on Friday. Speaking at his appointment ceremony, Yaghi said he hoped to develop materials to tackle major...