What’s hot in science? Research news for the day of March 11, 2021

Thu, 11 Mar 2021
Can bacteria make better crack-resistant materials?

Researchers harness the power of living organisms to make new materials

Biological systems can harness living cells for growth and regeneration, but engineering systems cannot — or couldn't until now.

Qiming Wang and other researchers at the …

Thu, 11 Mar 2021
First complete coronavirus model shows cooperation

Frontera, Anton 2 supercomputers simulate holistic model of SARS-CoV-2 virion

The virus that causes COVID-19 holds many mysteries. Scientists remain in the dark on aspects of how it fuses and enters the host cell, and how it assembles and buds off the host cell.

Computational modeling combined with experimental data provides insights into these …