Aizen is using generative artificial intelligence to discover mirror peptides made entirely out of d-amino acids. Like proteins, peptides are made of amino acids, but they are shorter chains than ...

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What is supposed to be the last of five meetings to negotiate a global treaty on plastic pollution has started in Busan, ...

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President-elect Donald J. Trump announced Friday evening that he would nominate Marty Makary to lead the FDA. Makary is a ...

The research “gives a nice, scientific explanation at a range of length scales,” says Gareth McKinley, a rheologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who wasn’t involved with the ...

Microplastics are everywhere, from the tallest mountains to the deepest depths of the ocean. Where do they come from, and how ...