In her lab at the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, computational biochemist Parisa Hosseinzadeh is using computer modelling to design synthetic peptides as potential drugs to…

Hold on there, graphene. Seriously, your grip could help make better catalysts. Rice University engineers have assembled what they say may transform chemical catalysis by greatly increasing the number of transition-metal single atoms that…

Long-standing images of dinosaurs as cold-blooded creatures needing tropical temperatures could be a relic of the past.  The University of Alaska Fairbanks and Florida State University palaeontologists have found that…

Machine learning came along at just the right time. The world is now awash in more data than ever before, and computer algorithms that can learn and improve as they…

The SARS-CoV-2 virus contains a gene that codes for a strange protein that could be a good target for drugs to fight COVID-19 and possibly other coronavirus infections, according to…

When the H1N1 swine flu outbreak hit in 2009 it caused typical flu symptoms, but severe cases led to pneumonia and lung failure. Doctors were unsure which treatments would work,…

Intense short-pulse laser-driven production of bright high-energy sources, such as X-rays, neutrons and protons, has been shown to be an invaluable tool in the study of high energy density science.…

PNNL combines AI, cloud computing, with damage assessment tool to predict path of wildfires and evaluate impact of natural disasters After the destructive California wildfires of 2019, the U.S. government put together a…

In 2018, scientists working with data from ESA’s (the European Space Agency’s) Mars Express orbiter announced a surprising discovery: Signals from a radar instrument reflected off the Red Planet’s south…