My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re…

Our ocean float spent years adrift in the Antarctic ocean and beneath massive ice shelves. What it found will help us estimate global sea-level rise.

Communications Chemistry, Published online: 05 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s42004-025-01812-8NMR spectroscopy’s effectiveness across scientific disciplines hinges on robust computational tools for data analysis. Here, the authors introduce NMRFx, a software that enhances data processing and visualization, demonstrating its utility through diverse case studies, including protein, RNA, natural product, and metabolomics analyses.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is invaluable in the medical world. But despite all the good it does, there is room for improvement. One way to enhance the sensitivity of MRI is dynamic nuclear polar...

From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'

A combined virtual and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-based screening approach identifies small molecules that bind conserved SARS-CoV-2 RNA structures. Diverse compound libraries are screened usin....

European Research Council president describes scheme as part attempt to lure US talent

Optimal control-derived saturation pulses allow 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopy covering spectral ranges in the MHz range. Next to a multitude of nuclei even multinuclear spectra are possible.

The authors demonstrate a proof-of-principle example of an NH-π hydrogen bond on the surface of an intrinsically disordered protein through detection of weak scalar couplings by NMR, supported by Mole...

Konstantin Ivanov intercontinental magnetic resonance seminar series started on April 8, 2020. It organises seminars on a range of topics in magnetic resonance covering NMR, EPR, hyperpolarisation, co...

RNA-binding protein TDP-43 contains a region forming a dynamic α-helical multimer that accounts for its functional role, evolutionary conservation, and disruption in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, mak...

Communications Chemistry, Published online: 26 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s42004-025-01763-0Although many proteins function by toggling between distinct conformations, most structure predictors remain limited to a single static fold. Here, the authors test the performance of AlphaFold2, AlphaFold3, and recent variants on a dataset of autoinhibited proteins exhibiting at least two functionally distinct conformations, and show that AlphaFold2 fails to reproduce the experimental structures of many autoinhibited proteins, but that it can capture conformational diversity when using uniform multiple sequence alignment subsampling.

La investigación, como tópico de entretenimiento, siempre es una buena inversión para periódicos, películas e informativos de radio y televisión: toca temas curiosos o sensibles, luce tecnología, fome...