The new open-source atlas, generated by an AI tool called ESMFold2, vastly increases the known protein universe ...

Silkhenge spiders were an unknown species until just over a decade ago. This is why when scientists stumbled upon a silkhenge ...

Using finely tuned nanoscale building blocks, researchers from Brown University and the University of Michigan College of ...

By stacking custom-designed silver nanoparticles like nanoscale LEGO bricks, scientists stabilized a mysterious crystal phase that had never been observed before. The material not only solves a ...

A new international review has shed light on how offshore energy structures—from oil and gas platforms to wind turbines—shape marine ecosystems and the benefits they provide to society. The paper, ...

The UK company DeepMind and its research partners have released predicted protein structures for nearly every protein expressed in the human body—more than 20,000 of them—for free online. The new ...

On Wednesday, the Nobel Committee announced that it had awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to researchers who pioneered major breakthroughs in computational chemistry. These include two researchers ...

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For the first time, an international team of researchers has experimentally observed magnetic hopfions.

Neanderthals are Homo sapiens’s closest-known relative, and today we know we rubbed shoulders with them for thousands of years, up until the very end of their long reign some 40,000 years ago. Most ...