New ‘FIFA Mobile’ season brings revamped visuals and team chemistry

FIFA Mobile has usually played second fiddle to its ‘full-size’ counterparts. That gap just closed a bit, however. EA has updated FIFA Mobile on Android and iOS for the new season, and it includes some much-needed improvements. There’s a full gameplay engine revamp that promises more fluid animation as well as smarter, more realistic AI. […]

AI plus a chemistry robot finds all the reactions that will work

Simple robots have been part of chemistry for years. (credit: Greg Russ) Chemistry is a sort of applied physics, with the behavior of electrons and their orbitals dictating a set of rules for which reactions can take place and what products will remain stable. At a very rough level, the basics of these rules are […]

Alan Turing’s chemistry hypothesis turned into a desalination filter

Enlarge / A reverse osmosis facility. (credit: South Florida Water District) Alan Turing is rightly famed for his contributions to computer science. But one of his key concepts—an autonomous system that can generate complex behavior from a few simple rules—also has applications in unexpected places, like animal behavior. One area where Turing himself applied the […]

Moulin Rouge, sexual chemistry & passion: Canadian ice dancing duo capture 3rd Olympic gold (PHOTOS)

Canadian ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir won their third Olympic gold medal on Tuesday, performing to music from ‘Moulin Rouge’ and edging out their French rivals by less than a point in PyeongChang. The duo captivated the crowd in South Korea, floating across the ice in their steamy interpretation of the romantic love […]

Circle Pharma Announces Publication in Journal of Medicinal Chemistry of Results from Collaboration with Pfizer Inc.

PRESS RELEASE: SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–January 17, 2018– Circle Pharma, Inc. today announced that results from its collaborative work with Pfizer Inc. to develop a potent and orally bioavailable macrocycle modulator of the chemokine receptor, CXCR7, have been published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. The goal of the collaboration was to deploy Circle’s […]

MEL Science mixes up VR chemistry lessons for U.K. schools

Virtual reality educational startup MEL Science has created 28 VR chemistry lessons that fit into the curricula of U.K. schools at various grade levels. Each lesson costs $ 10 on the Google Play store and is compatible with the Google Cardboard and Daydream devices. A one-year license is also available for schools, which costs $ […]

‘No chemistry’: Obama & Clinton tried and failed to make friends with Putin, Trump says

Donald Trump has branded the ‘Russian election meddling’ rhetoric a “Democratic hit job,” saying, that both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton just “didn’t have the chemistry” to build good relations with Vladimir Putin, because, you know, “there is a talent to that.” Following three brief encounters between the Russian and US presidents on the grounds […]

Strictly Come Dancing 2017: Davood and his partner Nadiya’s chemistry came ‘naturally’

But his wife Isobel is not in the least worried about the Strictly curse, which has seen a string of celebrities becoming romantically involved with their dance partners. The two women have become friends and spend time together “laughing” at Davood. The EastEnders star, 35, said of Nadiya, 28, a Ukrainian world dance champion: “She’s […]

Here’s what the images that just won the Nobel prize in chemistry look like and why they’re so transformative

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank, and Richard Henderson were awarded the 2017 Nobel prize in chemistry Wednesday for developing cryo-electron microscopy. The technique allows researchers to see the details of biological molecules like proteins, DNA, RNA, and viruses in ways that were impossible before. The new technology is revealing secrets of how […]