Scientists use ptychography to capture atoms as they transfer heat, and learn that phasons dominate during thermal movement ...

What if a complex material could reshape itself in response to a simple chemical signal? A team of physicists from the ...

Apart from carrying the information to encode proteins in, RNA molecules can adopt intricate 2D and 3D structures.

The hybridization energy for such configurations is small, and independent of the length of the VCG oligomers (left). While 2+V ligations may produce incorrect products via the same mechanism (middle) ...

This article was originally published with the title “The Shape of Molecules” in SA Supplements Vol. 63 No. 1641supp (June 1907), p. 26295 doi:10.1038 ...

Article citations More>> Parr, R.G. and Yang, W. (1989) Density Functional Theory of Atoms and Molecules. Oxford University Press. has been cited by the following article: TITLE: Cisplatin at Atomic, ...

We’ve figured out the basics of a shape-shifting, T-1000-style material A pack of small robots can do liquid/solid transitions and adopt different shapes.

The first direct visualization of the shape of a photon has been created. These particles of light are impossible to photograph, but physicists at the University of Birmingham have now calculated ...

Here, we present 3DSTarPred, a web server for three-dimensional (3D) shape similarity-based target prediction of small molecules. A benchmark study showed that 3DSTarPred achieved a target prediction ...

Cell membranes from comb jellies reveal a new kind of adaptation to the deep sea: curvy lipids that conform to an ideal shape under pressure.

Cell membranes from comb jellies reveal a new kind of adaptation to the deep sea: curvy lipids that conform to an ideal shape under pressure. Why does a comb jelly adapted to life at high pressure ...

The shape of molecules to come: A Q&A on designing DNA nanostructures for biomedical applications by Erin Frick, University at Albany Editors' notes ...