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Chemistry: Power play

A German physicist and a hedge-fund magnate are competing to push protein simulations into the realm of the millisecond. Brendan Borrell finds out what is at stake.

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Brendan Borrell is a freelance science writer in New York City.

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Borrell, B. Chemistry: Power play. Nature 451, 240–243 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/451240a

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