A group of scientists at SUNY Stony Brook has successfully attacked a simple case of one of the great unsolved mysteries of science - namely the so called "structure problem" i.e the prediction of a proteins three-dimensional structure from the sequence alone. The 3D structure of a small artificial protein has successfully been fully forecast.

The initial question is of course to what extent this is a breakthrough in the understanding of structural chemistry and to what extent it is merely a corollary of advances in the speed of the computeres used to compute the #D structure.