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Electron–proton collisions Study reveals importance of entanglement entropy. (Courtesy: Kevin Coughlin/Brookhaven National Laboratory) An international team of physicists has used the principle of ...

Illustration of the mechanisms at play during membrane curvature sensing of disordered proteins. Credit: Zeno et al, JACS 2019 doi:10.1021/jacs.9b03927 Curved lipid ...