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Enzymes are the molecular machines of life, and a key property that governs their function is substrate specificity—the ability of an enzyme to recognize and selectively act on particular substrates. This specificity originates from the three-dimensional (3D) structure of the enzyme active site and complicated transition state of the reaction1,2. Many enzymes can promiscuously catalyze reactions or act on substrates …

It has been a while since anyone saw or heard from Daniel Day-Lewis. After he issued the statement “Daniel Day-Lewis will no longer be working as an actor,” in 2017 before the release of The Phantom Thread, the man quietly faded from view. However, in his absence, it’s fair to say that his legend grew somewhat. Largely, this legend revolved …

The gravitational lensing not only splits the light source, but magnifies it, allowing a detailed view of the light source behind the lens. Thanks to this, the team says that HerS-3 appears to be a bright starburst galaxy—a galaxy undergoing explosive star formation—and was formed at a time when star formation was at its peak throughout the universe. HerS-3 also …

NEW ORLEANS — Someone check the temperature, because this season is heating up. In the past couple of weeks since the last National Coaches’ Poll, we’ve had meets from Tallahassee, Florida, to Columbia, Missouri, and everywhere in between. That meet in CoMo was the biggest of the bunch, as multitudes of ranked teams got a preview of the course that …

David Cross has become the latest comedian to criticize his fellow comics for participating in Saudi Arabia‘s Riyadh Comedy Festival. Cross wrote a rather scathing open letter denouncing performers at the event, who are reportedly being paid top dollar while agreeing to a set of censorious guidelines regarding what they can and cannot joke about on stage. The festival is …

The Riyadh Comedy Festival in the capital of Saudi Arabia began on Friday, with top comedians including Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Bill Burr, Aziz Ansari, Louis C.K., Pete Davidson, Jo Koy, and Jimmy Carr on the robust roster of performers. However, the comics have received backlash from their peers for reportedly accepting hefty paychecks in exchange for taking part in an …

Comedian David Cross released a fiery statement on his website Monday condemning the comedians who agreed to perform at Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Comedy Festival. “I am disgusted, and deeply disappointed in this whole gross thing,” Cross wrote. “That people I admire, with unarguable talent, would condone this totalitarian fiefdom for…what, a fourth house? A boat? More sneakers?” He continued, “We …

David Cross ripped into many of his former comedy heroes for their participation in Saudi Arabia’s controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival. The comedian posted his thoughts on his website and in an X post, saying he was “disgusted, and deeply disappointed in this whole gross thing.” Cross wondered how people he admired in the comedy space would “condone this totalitarian fiefdom …

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An odd image of a distant galaxy has revealed what might be an enormous blob of dark matter hiding in plain sight. When astronomers first looked at the new image of the galaxy HerS-3, taken by the Northern Extended Millimeter Array radio telescopes in France, they thought there was an error in the data. “We were like, ‘What the heck?'” …