One feature that has long captured the attention of biologists and aquarists alike is the unusually large lips of some ...

Crystal formation follows a two-step process: messy, shapeless clumps of particles, or amorphous blobs, first come together ...

Scientists at Northwestern University and University of California, Santa Barbara have created the first synthetic fragment of tau protein that acts like a prion.

Soap, a complex molecule, is both water-loving and water-fearing. Shaped like a tadpole, the soap molecule has a round head ...

It's easy to solve a 3x3 Rubik's cube, says Shantanu Chakrabartty, the Clifford W. Murphy Professor and vice dean for ...

Scientists at Columbia Engineering have created a machine learning algorithm that can observe the pattern produced by ...

Oregon Health & Science University, in collaboration with Oregon State University, has discovered the structural organization ...

Such molecules would be suited to acting as quantum bits, or qubits, the basic unit of information in quantum systems. But ...

Researchers have produced the most detailed image to date of a bacteriophage -- phage for short -- that has allowed them to see for the first time the structural makeup of the part of the phage that ...

Scientists discovered complex life may have started 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought thanks to phosphorus.

the most successful teams came from companies that employed dedicated specialists from structure search through to quantum chemistry and free energy simulations. ‘As we get to these complex systems, ...