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 ...
Tech Xplore

AI and physics draw a blueprint for better hydrogen storage materials

Hydrogen can become a clever way to store renewable energy and power fuel cells—but this introduces the problem of what can ...
Scientific American

‘Sensational’ proof topples decades-old geometry problem

Three mathematicians just proved a famous 30-year-old conjecture in geometry, with only a tiny assist from AI. The conjecture says that even within enormous, scattered and chaotic assemblages of ...
Business Wire

ProcessMiner Raises Seed Funding to Scale AI-Powered Optimization for Manufacturing, Critical Infrastructure End-Markets

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ProcessMiner, a leader in AI-powered process optimization for manufacturers, today announced new seed funding led by Titanium Innovation Investments. The investment will fuel ...
Phys.org

The secrets of black holes and the Higgs mass could be hidden in a 7-dimensional geometry

One of the greatest mysteries of modern physics, the "black hole information paradox," might have finally found an elegant solution, and the answer could also reveal the origins of the mass of ...
CNN

Carbon dioxide levels are higher than humans have ever experienced. It could be changing our blood chemistry

As humans burn fossil fuels and pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, we are heating up the planet. But there is another alarming impact of this climate pollution: it may be changing the chemistry ...
The New York Times

How Lindsey Vonn’s new titanium knee helped her become Olympic-bound once again

After a knee replacement in 2024, Lindsey Vonn returned to Alpine ski racing that winter, launching one of the more remarkable sports comebacks ever. Marco Bertorello / AFP via Getty Images Lindsey ...
Scientific American

This New Shape Breaks an ‘Unbreakable’ 3D Geometry Rule

Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. One can ...
The New York Times

Carbon Dioxide Levels Jumped by a Record Amount, U.N. Says

Surging emissions from wildfires may have been behind the increase, which was the largest since modern measurements began more than half a century ago. By Raymond Zhong and Sachi Kitajima Mulkey The ...
The White House

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores the United States Department of War

RESTORING THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to restore the historic name “Department of War” as a secondary title for the Department of Defense. This is ...
Medscape

Titanium Dioxide: Safe for Skin, Toxic for Gut?

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) annulled the European Commission’s 2019 classification, concluding that the EU Risk Assessment Committee (RAC) relied on insufficient scientific evidence for its ...