An international team of researchers has shed light on the molecular mechanism behind the importance of water for functional protein dynamics. The scientists have discovered that water's ability to flow on the surface of ...
Biochemistry
Mar 17, 2015
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While many people may think of cholesterol only as the culprit in heart disease and other serious conditions, this miraculous molecule is actually essential to our cells—organizing the fatty acids in the membranes that ...
Biochemistry
Sep 22, 2015
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Wind farms around the world are large and getting larger. Arranging thousands of wind turbines across many miles of land requires new tools that can balance cost and efficiency to provide the most energy for the buck.
General Physics
Nov 23, 2010
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An international study led by Monash University has, for the first time, harnessed cutting-edge technology to reveal new and unprecedented information of how a special class of drugs, known as "allosteric modulators" work ...
Biochemistry
May 30, 2023
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In a recently published study in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, researchers at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics (MBB) at Karolinska Institutet have questioned the old paradigm surrounding isotopes ...
Biochemistry
Dec 4, 2023
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Scientists at ETH Zurich, the renown Swiss university and IBM Research, in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), have set a new record in supercomputing ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 19, 2013
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Layered hybrid perovskites show diverse physical properties and exceptional functionality; however, from a materials science viewpoint, the co-existence of lattice order and structural disorder can hinder the understanding ...
Gadolinium-based contrast agents, the gold standard in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to determine the health of a patient, can be improved, according to Rice University engineers who are refining models they first used ...
Materials Science
Sep 20, 2021
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Chinese scientists have proposed a new method for direct fabrication of sub-10 nm nanopores in WO3 nanosheets using swift heavy ions. The results have been published in Nano Letters.
Nanophysics
Jun 21, 2023
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Computers used to take up entire rooms. Today, a two-pound laptop can slide effortlessly into a backpack. But that wouldn't have been possible without the creation of new, smaller processors—which are only possible with ...
Materials Science
Oct 10, 2018
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