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Scientists blasted plastic with lasers and turned it into tiny diamonds and a new type of water
By Robert Lea published 4 days ago
New research inspired by ice giants like Neptune and Uranus shows lasers can transform a common plastic into tiny diamonds.
Using ultrapowerful lasers, scientists have blasted cheap plastic and transformed it into tiny "nanodiamonds" — and, in doing so, confirmed the existence of an exotic new type of water. .
The findings could potentially reveal the existence of diamond rain on ice giants in our solar system and explain why these frigid worlds have such strange magnetic fields. The laser-blasting technique could also lead to more Earthly applications.
Nanodiamonds are diamonds that measure just a few nanometers, or billionths of a meter. They have both existing and potential applications, such as turning carbon dioxide into other gases and delivering drugs into the body, (Anon eye roll) study co-author Dominik Kraus, a physicist at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf in Germany, told Live Science.
https://www.livescience.com/lasers-plastic-diamonds
https://www.livescience.com/alphafold-wins-breakthrough-prize
DeepMind scientists win $3 million 'Breakthrough Prize' for AI that predicts every protein's structure
By Nicoletta Lanese published 3 days ago
The "protein folding problem" was a long-standing hurdle in biology.
Scientists from Google DeepMind have been awarded a $3 million prize for developing an artificial intelligence (AI) system that has predicted how nearly every known protein folds into its 3D shape.
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The open-source program makes its predictions based on the sequence of a protein's amino acids, or the molecular units that make up the protein, Live Science previously reported. These individual units link up in a long chain that then gets "folded" into a 3D shape. The 3D structure of a protein dictates what that protein can do, whether that's cutting DNA or tagging dangerous pathogens for destruction, so being able to infer the shape of proteins from their amino acid sequence is incredibly powerful.
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"Proteins are the nano-machines that run cells, and predicting their 3D structure from the sequence of their amino acids is central to understanding the workings of life," the foundation's statement reads. "With their team at DeepMind, Hassabis and Jumper conceived and constructed a deep learning system that accurately and rapidly models the structure of proteins."
Using AlphaFold, the DeepMind team has compiled a database of some 200 million protein structures, including proteins made by plants, bacteria, fungi and animals, Live Science previously reported. This database includes nearly all cataloged proteins known to science.
The AI system "learned" to assemble these shapes by studying known protein structures compiled in existing databases. These protein structures had been painstakingly visualized with a technique called X-ray crystallography, which involves zapping crystalline protein structures with X-rays and then measuring how those rays diffract.
Within these existing databases, AlphaFold identified patterns between proteins' amino acid sequences and their final 3D shapes. Then, using a neural network — an algorithm loosely inspired by how neurons process information in thebrain— the AI used this information to iteratively improve its ability to predict protein structures, both known and unknown.
https://www.livescience.com/alphafold-wins-breakthrough-prize
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Gnite fren. Was hoping to go to sleep at 10 and it's 3. (Same thing I do every day, Pinky, try to take over my bed.)