Since the powerhouse artificial intelligence (AI) tool AlphaFold2 was released in 2021, scientists have used the protein-structure-prediction model to map one of our cells’ biggest machines, discover ...

Fossil energy sources need to be eliminated — and communities that will be adversely affected during the clean-energy transition supported, as we wrote in an Editorial last week. In this week’s issue, ...

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Scientists have taken a major leap towards making an entirely new type of clock — one based on tiny shifts in energy in an ...

Scientists worry that the H5N1 strain of avian influenza will become endemic in cattle, which would facilitate its spread in people.

Deepmind’s AlphaFold has revolutionized research by making it simple to predict the 3D structures of proteins, but it has lacked the ability to predict situations where a protein is bound to another ...

Astronomers say that they have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect for the first time an atmosphere surrounding a rocky planet outside the Solar System 1. Although this planet cannot ...

The technology is helping the West African nation to invest wisely in infrastructure, prioritising energy and food security, but also human health.

Yet all she had done was to briefly treat them — many weeks earlier — with a drug that corrected the organization of proteins inside a type of stem cell. When technicians who were replicating her ...

President Javier Milei is making moves to partially privatize the sector, but in the meantime, projects have paused.

A new US policy, which goes into effect in one year, provides stricter oversight of risky pathogen research conducted in biosafety facilities. Credit: Associated Press/Alamy Stock ...