Scientists Discovered What Makes Coral Cities So Strong—and Want to Copy Their Blueprint

The tiny cnidarians that build massive structures like the Great Barrier Reef out of their skeletons have inspired new ...

Light-based technique creates artificial structures that mimic the scaffolding of cells

A laser-based system that can create mesh-like structures in a dish that resemble the cytoskeletons of cells has been ...

Researchers create a three-nanometer single-layer UiO-66 MOF nanosheet

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous structures composed of metal ions (or clusters) and organic linker molecules—much ...

My unsung hero of science: Buckminster Fuller, the architect who wanted to redesign the world (and inspired a nanosized one)

Yet this did not lessen his ambition to redesign the world. Fuller could be eccentric and sometimes controversial. His early ...
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AlphaFold Can Now Predict Protein Complex Structures at Scale

In an ambitious collaboration, researchers added 1.8 million high-confidence protein complex structure predictions to the ...