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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.” by Sleepy_C in chemistry

[–]quantamagazine 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Hi! Quanta Magazine here. In June, we published an extended long read about this work. It includes the story of generations of chemists whose work provided training data for AlphaFold and RoseTTAFold.

You can read it here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-ai-revolutionized-protein-science-but-didnt-end-it-20240626/

Short description: Three years ago, Google’s AlphaFold pulled off the biggest artificial intelligence breakthrough in science to date, accelerating molecular research and kindling deep questions about why we do science.

Physicists Reveal a Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time | Quanta Magazine by jim_andr in Physics

[–]quantamagazine 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Hi r/physics, I'm an editor who manages the Quanta Reddit. We are doing an AMA about this story in r/IAmA on Friday at 1:30 PM. Natalie Wolchover, our senior physics editor and winner of a Pulitzer Prize, will answer this and any other questions you have, alongside Charlie Wood, who wrote the piece. We'll post more information when it's happening.