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It allowed the MIT team to analyze the quantum geometry (i.e. QGT) of electrons, including other important properties like ...

Researchers developed a fully open-source biomolecular structure prediction model that achieves state-of-the-art performance, at the level of AlpahFold3, in an effort to democratize biomedical ...

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