by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 9, 2025 | Anton, Anton 2, Science Highlights
An ensemble of four structures between which a membrane protein rapidly switches underlies a critical system for passing messages across the cell membrane. Anton Reveals Ensemble of Four Rapidly Interchanging Structures that Suggests Purpose to the Chaos as Well as...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 26, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
CMU Group Uses Bridges-2 to Create Video Game for AI to Learn From, Teach Human Engineers The nation’s bridges are literally crumbling. Authorities don’t have enough trained engineers or money to inspect bridges properly. And inspection itself is as much art as...
by Ken Chiacchia | May 28, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
One of the projects undertaken by high school students with Bridges-2 is simulating how pulses of infrared or visible light can turn the protein kinesin into a tiny molecular motor for nanotechnology machines. Adobe Stock 230402435 Unique Program at North Carolina...
by Ken Chiacchia | May 14, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
A Syracuse University team used Bridges-2 to correct earlier, mistaken simulations of the hemoglobin protein (lower left) and its oxygen-carrying heme group (center) and determine how carbon monoxide (blue and red spheres, top center) competes with oxygen (purple and...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 17, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Credit: Illustration: NASA, ESA, and JPL-Caltech; Science: NASA, ESA, and D. Apai and E. Buenzli (University of Arizona) Study of Substellar Objects Using Bridges-2 Sheds Light on Globular Cluster Age and Early Development of Universe Collections of stars called...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 7, 2025 | Anton, Anton 2, Science Highlights
Adobe Stock 508244320 “Tucking In” of Viral Capsid Protein Allows Passage of Giant Structure through Nuclear Pore, Allowing Virus to Take Over The hepatitis B virus causes about 800,000 deaths per year, on par with HIV and the malaria parasite. However, as it spreads,...
