Shibaura Institute of Technology simulations of Bacillus subtilis PyNP retained bound ligands in 75.6% of closed-shape trajectories against 55.1% of open ones. The result informs nucleoside-analog drug design, though it measures how ligands bind and stops short of the reaction itself.
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- Insufficient
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Femtosecond electron imaging at SLAC shows copper holding crystalline order past the collapse point simulations predicted. The mismatch came down to one pressure assumption.
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Working from an atomistic model of PMMA, the authors added a power-law memory kernel to non-affine lattice dynamics and matched molecular dynamics plus three kinds of measurement down to millihertz frequencies.
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Researchers in Denmark and Portugal engineered a bacterial enzyme that attacks commercial polyurethane foam with no pre-treatment and at mild temperature and pressure. The rate they measured sets the distance to a plant.
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- Hype gap+30
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- Confidence52
An international team simulated all 4,096 six-letter DNA words inside 190 fragments. The stronger framing, that mechanics filters which mutations survive, is still a hypothesis.
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- Evidence45
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- Hype gap+30
- Incentives65
- Confidence50
Michele Valsecchi's Columbia group has a molecular account of why fused polyethylene joints outlast the pipe. Crystals grow along the old surface line as the joint cools, which means cooling rate has to be treated as a controlled variable rather than left to chance.
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A billion-atom simulation from Helsinki finds defect counts in tungsten scaling superlinearly with recoil energy, a regime the standard damage models do not contain.
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- Evidence54
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- Insufficient
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives42
- Confidence55