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Letter: Let's deploy AI on other great problems in science

Published 8 December 2021

From Andrew Hawkins, Peaslake, Surrey, UK

Harking back to your coverage of the achievements of DeepMind’s AI approach to protein folding, I wondered if the long-standing problems of creating a suitable material for a room-temperature superconductor and of practical fusion power might be good subjects for this technique (31 July, p 14).

Breakthroughs in these issues would certainly contribute a great deal to the current threat of global warming.

Issue no. 3364 published 11 December 2021

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