3D structure model of the receptor-binding domain of SARS-CoV-2 (in blue) interacting with the human ACE2 receptor (in gray). Amino acids important to the interaction,…
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A group of Singaporean government agencies is launching a new research program for blockchain technology with $12 million SGD (about $8.9 million USD) in funding.…
Food engineers in Brazil and France developed gels based on modified starch for use as “ink” to make foods and novel materials by additive manufacturing.…
French startup Luko has raised a $60 million Series B funding round (€50 million). The round is led by EQT Ventures, with existing investors Accel,…
[embedded content] The stars are constantly moving across the sky. Known as proper motion, this motion is imperceptible to the unaided eye but is being…
A team of Johns Hopkins University researchers has developed a new software that could revolutionize how DNA is sequenced, making it far faster and less…
Artist’s impression of the system, with the star at the center, and the inner dust belt from which gas is produced and dispersed outwards to…
Illinois researchers developed a spherical lens that allows light coming into the lens from any direction to be focused into a very small spot on…
An end-to-end cyber-biological attack, in which unwitting biologists may be tricked into generating dangerous toxins in their labs, has been discovered by Ben-Gurion University of…
Nobel False Widow Spider. Credit: NUI Galway NUI Galway study, published in the international journal Scientific Reports, confirms that spiders carry harmful bacteria and that…
In coming days, the Food and Drug Administration is likely to authorize new COVID-19 vaccines based on applications submitted by two companies. These authorizations have…
Hayabusa2’s reentry capsule forms a fireball in the desert sky over Australia’s Woomera Prohibited Area as it arrives back on Earth on 5 December 2020,…
Researcher Melissa Tumen-Velasquez works with microbes to understand how the organisms consume plastics and break them into chemical components that can be used to make…
MIT grad student Chiara Salemi and Professor Lindley Winslow use the ABRACADABRA instrument to reveal insights into dark matter. On the first floor of MIT’s…
SpaceX launched its 21st Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) mission for NASA to the International Space Station on Sunday, using a brand new variant of its…
A new CRISPR-based test for COVID-19 developed by researchers at Gladstone Institutes, UC Berkeley, and UC San Francisco essentially converts a smartphone camera into a…
Funding-round stories are TechCrunch’s bread and butter. For early-stage companies, the fact that an investor has put thousands, millions (or billions) into an idea that…
Field-like torque tries to align the magnetization with the plane of the material, but to work as a memory device the magnetization needs to be…
Welcome back to Mixtape, the TechCrunch podcast that takes examines diversity, inclusion and the human labor that drives tech. This week, Megan moderated a panel…
December 3, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) Fire season in California generally peaks from May through October. But as global temperatures have risen, so…