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With the new protein fold predicting AI in the news; are there 2 proteins with identical amino acid sequences but different structures that have fundamentally different enzymatic activity or function in the cell?

463 upvotes • arkaryote

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Why does the morning sky look so different from the evening sky when at any given moment it seems like the same thing; the sun close to the horizon?

463 upvotes • wandrlusty

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What is the ‘widest’ ancestral generation?

463 upvotes • vesuvisian

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If the Earth exists long enough, could all of the crust be recycled?

463 upvotes • ianaad

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What are the long term effects of preventing an animal that would normally hibernate from doing so?

462 upvotes • globen

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This is what happens when a mix of mercury, thiocyanate and ammonium chromate is put to a flame, can someone explain what happens? Never seen anything like it.

462 upvotes • Borgatbars

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Do solar panels cool down an area?

462 upvotes • Kldsrf

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How does a human lung remove inhaled dust and other small foreign objects?

462 upvotes • RFEngineer

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When something travels faster than the speed of sound, it creates a sonic boom. If something were able to travel faster than the speed of light, would it create a "light boom"?

462 upvotes • SynthKorg

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I am Dr. Reid Harris and I study the chytrid fungus that is decimating amphibians around the world and ways to stop it, AMA

462 upvotes • janthino

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
With the new protein fold predicting AI in the news; are there 2 proteins with identical amino acid sequences but different structures that have fundamentally different enzymatic activity or function in the cell?	463	arkaryote
Why does the morning sky look so different from the evening sky when at any given moment it seems like the same thing; the sun close to the horizon?	463	wandrlusty
What is the ‘widest’ ancestral generation?	463	vesuvisian
If the Earth exists long enough, could all of the crust be recycled?	463	ianaad
What are the long term effects of preventing an animal that would normally hibernate from doing so?	462	globen
This is what happens when a mix of mercury, thiocyanate and ammonium chromate is put to a flame, can someone explain what happens? Never seen anything like it.	462	Borgatbars
Do solar panels cool down an area?	462	Kldsrf
How does a human lung remove inhaled dust and other small foreign objects?	462	RFEngineer
When something travels faster than the speed of sound, it creates a sonic boom. If something were able to travel faster than the speed of light, would it create a "light boom"?	462	SynthKorg
I am Dr. Reid Harris and I study the chytrid fungus that is decimating amphibians around the world and ways to stop it, AMA	462	janthino