For decades, scientists have been working to understand the building blocks of life by studying the structures of proteins and other large biological molecules. ...
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Members of SLAC’s LZ team with the loom they used to weave high-voltage grids for the next-gen dark matter experiment.
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Mutant Ribosomes and the Action of Antibiotics
The ribosome, found in all living cells, is the molecular machine that builds proteins. It faithfully attaches together amino acids – the building blocks...
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Metals, Molecules, Life and Death
In our normal everyday lives we are exposed to an incredibly complex chemical soup consisting of an enormous variety of different chemical compounds. Many...
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The Runaway Universe
The Universe appears to be flat, accelerating and lightweight. In this talk, I will explain what these terms mean, how we developed this view...
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Smashing Protons: First Physics at the LHC
The Large Hadron Collider, at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, is the largest scientific instrument ever built. For nearly a year now, we have been...
