1+ day, 9+ min ago   (570+ words) [Newswise image]Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have, for the first time, used a breakthrough technique with a goal of better identifying the origin of nuclear materials -- a tool that could someday help efforts to prevent the spread of…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (341+ words) [Newswise image]Researchers have created a spray-on polyurea nanocomposite coating reinforced with functionalized graphene. The coating delivers high strength and stretchability, strong adhesion across substrates, and durable performance after heat, salt-spray, and UV aging. It also resists corrosion and provides…...

4+ day, 49+ min ago   (558+ words) The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1876 and chartered by the U.S. Congress. ACS is committed to improving all lives through the transforming power of chemistry. Its mission is to advance scientific knowledge, empower a global community…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (815+ words) [Newswise image]A research team presents an overview of recent advances in the microbial biosynthesis of L-tryptophan (L-Trp) and its structurally diverse derivatives, highlighting how synthetic biology and metabolic engineering are reshaping the sustainable production of high-value amino acids, pharmaceuticals,…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (567+ words) [Newswise image]A research team maps the key tasks that define modern enzyme engineering--function annotation, structure modeling, and property prediction--and explain how AI methods now accelerate each step, from mining candidate enzymes in massive sequence databases to generating…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (533+ words) From Machine Learning to Multimodal Models: The AI Revolution in Enzyme Engineering | Newswise'Newswise From Machine Learning to Multimodal Models: The AI Revolution in Enzyme Engineering Figure 4. Overview of UniKP architecture. (Enzyme sequences encoded into 1024-dimensional embeddings via the ProtT5-XL-UniRef50 protein language…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (601+ words) [Newswise image]A research team has delivered an overview of how computational tools are reshaping the design of nonnatural metabolic pathways--engineered biochemical routes that do not exist in nature but enable microorganisms to produce valuable chemicals, fuels, and materials....

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (146+ words) An atomic force microscope tip writes data in stable ferroelectric structures, enabling reliable multistate storage at extremely small scales. Newswise " Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory used specialized tools to study materials at the atomic scale and analyze defects at…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (622+ words) Newswise " Scientists have made a major step toward using quasiparticles " particles displaying collective behavior " to hunt for axions. Their findings open new paths for harnessing quasiparticles to search for dark matter and to develop new quantum technologies. No one has…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (522+ words) [Newswise image]A research team reports a metal-free catalytic strategy that completely converts waste PET into two high-value chemicals--dimethyl terephthalate (DMT) and ethylene carbonate (EC)--in just 2.5 hours under relatively mild conditions. A Metal-Free Route to Fully Recycle PET…...