Enlarge (credit: Olivier Le Moal | Getty Images) Before this century is over, we’re almost certainly going to need to pull massive amounts of carbon dioxide back out of the atmosphere. While we already know how to do carbon capture and storage, it takes a fair amount of energy and equipment, and someone has to […]
Expand / Proteins quickly form complex constructions that had proven tough to forecast. (charge: Argonne National Lab) Now, DeepMind declared it had apparently solved one of Science’s exceptional difficulties: the series of amino acids within a protein folds into a three-dimensional form that allows their intricate functions. It is a computational challenge which has resisted […]
Expand / scientists mixed chitin–a natural polymer present in abundance in arthropods, in addition to fish scales–using a mineral which reproduces the properties of Martian soil to produce a workable new substance for building shelters and tools on Mars. (charge: Javier G. Fernandez) Space aficionados that dream about a single day colonizing Mars should grapple […]