An enzyme structure designed using a combination of machine-learning tools. Credit: Sam Pellock Researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to design brand-new enzymes that can go through multi-step reactions, a
The company QuEra has raised US$230 million in funding — one of the largest single investments in any quantum firm.Credit: QuEra Computing Inc. A technology once feared too error-prone to
Robert F. Kennedy Jr now oversees the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which he last year called a ‘cesspool of corruption’. Credit: Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg/Getty Scientists are bracing
Elon Musk became a foreign member of the Royal Society, the world’s oldest scientific academy, in 2018.Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty The Royal Society in London has called a meeting
Donald Trump became the 47th US president on 20 January.Credit: Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Since US President Donald Trump took office in January, his team has made major changes to
Limited jobs in academia are deterring students from enroling in doctoral degrees in some countries.Credit: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Numbers of people enrolling in PhD programmes have dropped in a handful