Let’s take a closer look at this protein structure... determined using AlphaFold2. This protein structure is part of a huge molecular structure in the human body. More than a thousand proteins form a pore through the membrane surrounding the cell nucleus. Animation: ©Terezia Kovalova/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences #NobelPrizeshow more

This is a bacterial flagellar motor … one of... nature’s most sophisticated molecular machines - a rotary motor embedded in the cell membrane consisting of ~25-30 protein types totaling 20,000-50,000 atoms in a multi-part structure of rotor, stator, drive shaft, and propeller. Operating at 100-300 Hz (6,000-18,000 RPM) with some species reaching 1,700 Hz (~100,000 RPM) at nearly 100% efficiency, this nanoscale engine features rotor proteins FliG/FliM/FliN forming the C-ring, MotA/MotB stator complexes, FlgG rod protein drive shaft, FliC flagellin propeller filament, and FlgE hook proteins acting as a universal joint, all powered by proton or sodium flow across the membrane generating torque through conformational changes in the stator complexes.show more

＃Blender tongue A simple bone structure without using geometry... nodes. The bone constraint is activated based on the position of the sphere.show more

A closer look at the new human form -... Glamour of Maria Renard! 🦉 Wishlist the Legacy of Castlevania:show more

I wrote this fun interactive article explaining Isomap, a... classic non-linear dimensionality reduction technique. Isomap captures the local similarity structure of data through a graph and computes an embedding that preserves this structure. Check it out! Link below.show more

🌌🛣️ James Webb Found a Cosmic Highway. Using the... James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have observed a huge structure — a chain of around 20 galaxies stretching millions of light-years across the early universe. This structure is likely part of the cosmic web, where dark matter guides the formation of galaxies along filaments. The light from these galaxies has traveled for over 13 billion years, revealing how the universe began organizing itself into large-scale patterns. This discovery gives us a glimpse of the universe’s early “skeleton” — the framework that shaped everything we see today.show more

[RG911Team] What happens when a steel skyscraper is demolished... with explosives? Debris is ejected outwards by the explosive charges. The vacuum allows the upper structure to collapse down instead of sideways. The entire structure is dismembered. Can fire do this?show more

Here is “one more thing” from GPT-6 Astra that... completely blew my mind!🤯 Asked it to create the 3D structures of 2 proteins, green fluorescent protein (GFP) & interleukin-2 (IL-2), then design a fusion protein combining them, which doesn't occur naturally, using AlphaFold-OMG! It did it and I watched it make it on my computer in 9 minutes, my mouth open! I am just so excited about the possibilities of Astra for Biomedical research, and have many more really cool stuff building now! Only limited with my tokens at this time! Here is a short video showing the actual structure!show more

A new result using NASA’s Chandra Observatory shows that... the outer spiral arms in the Milky Way galaxy may reach wider than previously thought. This finding may lead astronomers to adjust their understanding of our home galaxy’s structure. READ MORE:show more

🚨 Scientists may have found a hidden shortcut to... Mars using asteroid orbits. A new study suggests asteroid orbital geometry could cut Mars round trips to 153 days shaving hundreds of days off conventional missions. The idea: Use the geometry of small-body orbital planes like gravitational “corridors” through the Solar System. Not brute force. Structure. Navigation through celestial resonance. Sometimes progress isn’t pushing harder through space it’s discovering the path space already allows. Mars may be closer than we thought. Follow me I track where physics becomes structure.show more

Check out the structure of this supercell in a... conditionally volatile environment for tornadic storms but in a tipping point state. A few degrees warmer at the surface, a tickle more surface convergence, or lift and would have had big problemsshow more

$MSTR is a boat and the Bitcoin cycle is... the ocean. Our capital structure is designed to keep the boat afloat through the ebbing and flowing of the waves.show more

Between 7 to 9 weeks the embryo transforms at... an unbelievable speed. The brain develops rapidly, the heart beats stronger and tiny features like hands, legs and facial structure start becoming visible. By 9 weeks, it’s no longer just a cluster of cells it begins to look more like a small human. This phase shows how life evolves from something microscopic into a recognizable form in just days.show more

A giant canyon on the Sun On July 15,... a powerful flare occurred on the surface of the Sun, which briefly changed its structure and caused the release of hot plasma into space. As a result of this event, a plasma "scar" about 400,000 kilometers long appeared. This is approximately the distance from the Earth to the Moon. The height of the structure reaches 20,000 kilometers. All this was recorded with high accuracy by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).show more

Architecture is not just about the structure, it’s about... the soul of how we live. This 1970s organic masterpiece in Mexico is a dreamscape of curves and light. Credit TT Casitamxshow more

The Nakivubo channel project is a worthwhile endeavour, but... if it is not handled carefully, the consequences will be dire. Ham should have first provided an engineering solution for the run-offs which flow through this channel before commencing any development works. I am not an engineer, but the first thing would have been widening and deepening the channel in order to create more room that's so far eaten up by the structure in the form of the shuttering materials used and debris. By the look of things, this is a disaster in waiting.show more

The most detailed 3D reconstruction of a cell ever... created. Blows my mind every time. But what exactly are we looking at here? The average human cell contains: ~ 15-20 total distinct organelle types, totalling between ~1-10 million working together per cell. All these nano-machines in the cell are made up of proteins. ~ 8,000-10,000 distinct types of unique proteins, adding up to between 40 million - 10 trillion total proteins making up all those cellular systems. ~ 10,000 - 15,000 distinct types of RNA shuttling information around the cell, totalling up to ~10 million RNA molecules moving around the cell simultaneously. ~ Billions of Lipid molecules packed together into the cell membrane, which is also packed tightly with millions more protein-based nano-machines. And let's not forget billions of lines of DNA information to build and run it all. That's TRILLIONS of of individual molecular pieces working together to make a single cell function. That means there is more complexity in a single cell than humanity's largest cities. And people still believe this wasn't Divinely Designed. This is God's Glory on Display. But to make the point. A cell couldn't have evolved from some nebulous simpler "protocell" because even the simplest cells still require massive complexity. The "simplest" cell ever created was engineered by scientists knocking out pieces of a functional cell until it stopped functioning. Here is what they found is the absolute necessary minimal requirements of a cell to function: - Over ~531,000 lines of coded DNA information - 473 total genes to create hundreds of unique protein products (they later added 19 genes back in because the cell was so weak) - Hundreds of thousands of total proteins all working together - Extensive regulatory networks guiding all these interactions If the cell doesn't have all these systems in place, from the start... it doesn't live. Cell rely on an intricate network of complex systems, which are themselves built from complex interconnected pieces woven together into an incomprehensibly complex web of functionilty. Only intelligence has ever been observed creation vast interconnected systems like this. Life was clearly Created. It couldn't happen any other way.show more