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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Researchers made 1-nm MoS2 nanotubes inside boron nitride shells, advancing atomically precise semiconductors for smaller ...

A research team led by Potsdam-based bioinformatician Prof. Dr. Zoran Nikoloski has developed a computational approach and an accompanying tool that enables the detailed analysis and reconstruction of ...

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

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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 ...