Yasemin Saplakoglu – Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org Illuminating science Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:10:47 -0400 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 The Cellular Secret to Resisting the Pressure of the Deep Sea https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-cellular-secret-to-resisting-the-pressure-of-the-deep-sea-20240909/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-cellular-secret-to-resisting-the-pressure-of-the-deep-sea-20240909/#respond Mon, 09 Sep 2024 14:18:08 +0000 https://www.quantamagazine.org/?p=140436 The post The Cellular Secret to Resisting the Pressure of the Deep Sea first appeared on Quanta Magazine

]]> The bottom of the ocean is cold, dark and under extreme pressure. It is not a place suited to the physiology of us surface dwellers: At the deepest point, the pressure of 36,200 feet of seawater is greater than the weight of an elephant on every square inch of your body. Yet Earth’s deepest places are home to life uniquely suited to these challenging conditions. Scientists have studied how the...

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]]> https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-cellular-secret-to-resisting-the-pressure-of-the-deep-sea-20240909/feed/ 0 How Colorful Ribbon Diagrams Became the Face of Proteins https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-colorful-ribbon-diagrams-became-the-face-of-proteins-20240823/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-colorful-ribbon-diagrams-became-the-face-of-proteins-20240823/#respond Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:43:59 +0000 https://www.quantamagazine.org/?p=140004 The post How Colorful Ribbon Diagrams Became the Face of Proteins first appeared on Quanta Magazine

]]> Jane Richardson never considered herself an artist. Then, in the late 1970s, the structural biologist found herself in need of some colored pencils, pastels and sketching paper. Richardson, a professor of biochemistry at Duke University, studied proteins, the biomolecules that underpin all the workings of life. At the time, structural biologists were getting better at creating 3D models of...

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]]> https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-colorful-ribbon-diagrams-became-the-face-of-proteins-20240823/feed/ 0 What Happens in a Mind That Can’t ‘See’ Mental Images https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-happens-in-a-mind-that-cant-see-mental-images-20240801/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-happens-in-a-mind-that-cant-see-mental-images-20240801/#respond Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:30:51 +0000 https://www.quantamagazine.org/?p=139440 The post What Happens in a Mind That Can’t ‘See’ Mental Images first appeared on Quanta Magazine

]]> Two years ago, Sarah Shomstein realized she didn’t have a mind’s eye. The vision scientist was sitting in a seminar room, listening to a scientific talk, when the presenter asked the audience to imagine an apple. Shomstein closed her eyes and did so. Then, the presenter asked the crowd to open their eyes and rate how vividly they saw the apple in their mind. Saw the apple? Shomstein was confused.

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]]> https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-happens-in-a-mind-that-cant-see-mental-images-20240801/feed/ 0 How AI Revolutionized Protein Science, but Didn’t End It https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-ai-revolutionized-protein-science-but-didnt-end-it-20240626/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 14:23:51 +0000 https://www.quantamagazine.org/?p=138623 The post How AI Revolutionized Protein Science, but Didn’t End It first appeared on Quanta Magazine

]]> In December 2020, when pandemic lockdowns made in-person meetings impossible, hundreds of computational scientists gathered in front of their screens to watch a new era of science unfold. They were assembled for a conference, a friendly competition some of them had attended in person for almost three decades where they could all get together and obsess over the same question. Known as the protein...

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]]> Electric ‘Ripples’ in the Resting Brain Tag Memories for Storage https://www.quantamagazine.org/electric-ripples-in-the-resting-brain-tag-memories-for-storage-20240521/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/electric-ripples-in-the-resting-brain-tag-memories-for-storage-20240521/#respond Tue, 21 May 2024 14:10:37 +0000 https://www.quantamagazine.org/?p=138060 The post Electric ‘Ripples’ in the Resting Brain Tag Memories for Storage first appeared on Quanta Magazine

]]> György Buzsáki first started tinkering with waves when he was in high school. In his childhood home in Hungary, he built a radio receiver, tuned it to various electromagnetic frequencies and used a radio transmitter to chat with strangers from the Faroe Islands to Jordan. He remembers some of these conversations from his “ham radio” days better than others, just as you remember only some...

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