In a star system far, far away—well, about 1,300 light-years from here—a young star just spilled the chemical tea on the origins of life. V883 Orionis, a fiery infant star surrounded by a swirling ...

Proteins are life's molecular workhorses, doing everything from turning sunlight into food to fighting viruses. They are ...

The Helfrich theory of membrane bending, supported by molecular dynamics simulations, is a promising approach for evaluating ...

imageimageThere are no cellular or molecular biomarkers diagnostic of myalgic encephalomyelitis (also known as chronic fatigue syndrome [ME/CFS]). We find hundreds of blood-based traits are different, ...

In molecular dynamics (MD), the accessible time scales are limited by the necessity to choose sufficiently small time steps so that the fastest vibrations of the system can still be modeled. Mass ...

In the world of taxicab geometry, even the Pythagorean theorem takes a back seat.

Physicists recently mapped the hidden shape that underlies the quantum behaviors of a crystal, using a new method that’s expected to become ubiquitous.

The MIT model predicts molecular binding affinity at newfound speed and accuracy, offering a powerful tool for commercial drug discovery.

The success of a molecular dynamics simulation depends on the accuracy of the force field used to define the atomic interactions. It is challenging to train both classical and modern machine-learning ...

The (molecular) shape of you New methods allow scientists to use a powerful technique known as cryo-EM to examine proteins that have been difficult to study so far.

Increasing species richness toward the equator has been hypothesized to result from elevated temperatures, which increase molecular rates and consequently facilitate rapid speciation. We tested this ...

Intelligence—natural or artificial—may be a matter of geometric structure, not temporal sequence, challenging how we understand thought itself.