Toward experiment-guided AlphaFold: Researchers overcome AI tool's single-conformation limitation

The AI-based program AlphaFold predicts a protein's 3D structure with remarkable accuracy. However, it tends to reduce heterogeneous structures to a single dominant conformation, or shape, and ...

Strange glowing 'bow-and-arrow' structure may be a giant cosmic shock wave created by a supersonic galaxy c...

A bizarre "bow-and-arrow" radio galaxy nearly 1.8 million light-years across could reveal how galaxy clusters sculpt some of ...
Charlotte Observer

The ultimate guide to temporary structures for commercial use

For many businesses, the need for adaptable, event-ready space is constant. Finding a solution that is cost-effective, structurally sound, and aesthetically pleasing can feel like a significant ...
Wired

Senators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centers Use

Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually ...
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Why the world’s biggest structures use I-beams

From skyscrapers to massive bridges, I-beams help engineers build stronger structures with less material. Their distinctive shape is designed to handle bending loads as efficiently as possible. Did ...
coloradosun

Data centers are coming to Colorado. Can the parched state handle their big water needs?

Original Reporting This article contains firsthand information gathered by reporters. This includes directly interviewing sources and analyzing primary source documents. Subject Specialist The ...
BGR

You're Probably Using Your USB-C Ports Wrong - Here's How

For those who have used PCs for a sufficiently long time, you probably remember trying to insert a USB plug into a port, only to have to flip it upside-down to get it in there. The advent of USB-C in ...
Reason

Data Centers Use Lots of Electricity. This Bill Would Let Them Go Off the Grid.

Tech companies are building data centers as quickly as possible to run AI. These facilities are controviersial because they use copious amounts of electricity and might tax an electrical grid that in ...
The New York Times

Big Tech’s A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone

Electricity rates for individuals and small businesses could rise sharply as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other technology companies build data centers and expand into the energy business. A ...
Nature

Ab initio structure solutions from nanocrystalline powder diffraction data via diffusion models

A major challenge in materials science is the determination of the structure of nanometre-sized objects. Here we present an approach that uses a generative machine learning model based on diffusion ...
PNAS

Protein functional site annotation using local structure embeddings

Computational methods for protein function annotation are necessary in order to keep up with the quantity of new sequences and structures being deposited in protein databases. Despite the good ...
C&EN

Development of a Teaching Approach for Structure Elucidation Using 1D and 2D Homonuclear and Heteronuclear NMR Spectra

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. A frequent challenge that graduate and undergraduate students in chemistry, biology, ...