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Prof. Heather Kulik at whiteboard sketching AI-driven polymer structures
AI Hardware

Why Materials Science Can't Have an AlphaFold — And What It Takes to Change That

What if the AI revolution in science stalls outside biology's tidy amino acid playground? Prof. Heather Kulik reveals why materials discovery demands more than models— it craves dirty, real-world data.

4 min read 1 week, 2 days ago
Prof. Heather Kulik illustrating AI-driven polymer design breakthrough
AI Hardware

Why Materials Science Craves Its AlphaFold — And How AI Might Deliver It

Imagine designing unbreakable polymers or miracle batteries overnight. Prof. Heather Kulik shows why AI's materials revolution is real, just not AlphaFold-simple.

3 min read 1 week, 2 days ago
Robotic arms in DeepMind's UK automated lab synthesizing advanced materials under AI guidance
AI Hardware

DeepMind's UK Robot Lab: Forging Superconductors to Supercharge the Future

190,000 UK researchers already turbocharged by AlphaFold. Now DeepMind's dropping a robot-packed lab to hunt miracle materials—think room-temp superconductors.

3 min read 2 weeks ago
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