‘Absolutely remarkable’: No one who got Moderna’s vaccine in trial developed severe COVID-19
Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.
‘The game has changed.’ AI triumphs at solving protein structures
Artificial intelligence (AI) has solved one of biology’s grand challenges: predicting how proteins curl up from a linear chain of amino acids into 3D shapes that allow them to carry out life’s tasks. Today, leading structural biologists and organizers of a biennial protein-folding competition announced the achievement by researchers at […]
Field Test: 2021 Actofive P-Train – Not Your Typical Trail Bike
If you’re in the market for something a lot less common and much more interesting for your next trail bike, you might want to consider a small brand from Germany called Actofive. By “small,” I really mean just one guy named Simon Metzner, and by “trail bike,” I really mean […]
UK to ban installation of new Huawei 5G kit from September
The UK government on Monday announced that British telecom companies will not be allowed to install new Huawei 5G equipment after September 2021.
US safety body to investigate 115,000 Tesla cars over suspension issue
The safety agency said it was noticing a rising trend of alleged component failures at highway speeds.
New Volkswagen ID.1 electric supermini due for launch in 2023
All-electric Volkswagen ID.1 will rival the Peugeot e-208 and Vauxhall Corsa-e when it goes on sale
DeepMind’s AI biologist can decipher secrets of the machinery of life
An AI system developed by UK-based company DeepMind has achieved the long-sought-after goal of accurately predicting the shape of proteins from their sequence alone, a key part of understanding how the machinery of life works. In a competition, AlphaFold was able to match two-thirds of the results achieved by humans […]