Japanese scientist Susumu Kitagawa, who shared this year’s chemistry Nobel prize with two other researchers abroad, would not have come up with an idea for a new kind of material with numerous applications had it not been for hours of downtime at his alma mater Kyoto University in 1989. Kitagawa, who was a Kindai University researcher at the time, was analyzing the structure of a new crystal using a supercomputer at Kyoto University. But it took time for the device to crunch out results, as it