Selected papers of the week (26.to.30.10.09)

Self-Recognition and Ca2+-Dependent Carbohydrate–Carbohydrate Cell Adhesion Provide Clues to the Cambrian Explosion

Tensor networks—a new tool for old problems

A limit on the variation of the speed of light arising from quantum gravity effects

The role of DNA shape in protein–DNA recognition

Unraveling the structure of DNA during overstretching by using multicolor, single-molecule fluorescence imaging

Breaking the Moore's Law

Tilera Announces the World's First 100-core Processor with the New TILE-Gx Family

Larrabee is the codename for a GPGPU chip that Intel is developing

The Next Generation CUDA Architecture, Code Named Fermi

Selected papers of the past week (19.to.23.10.09)

FLASH, a Proapoptotic Protein Involved in Activation of Caspase-8, Is Essential for 3′ End Processing of Histone Pre-mRNAs

Architecture-Dependent Noise Discriminates Functionally Analogous Differentiation Circuits

Information causality as a physical principle

Molecular biology: Slip sliding on DNA

Life and Death Play Out on the Skins of Frogs

Amazing talks this week

Quantum to Cosmos Festival @ Perimeter Institute

Henry Markram: Supercomputing the brain's secrets

Telomere Replication made easy

Particles "knockin' on the LHC's door

Higgs, dark matter and supersymmetry: what the Large Hadron Collider will tell us. Steven Weinberg

quest of the week

Top five of the day 12.10.09

Running towards the singularity,

Beware of Casimir engines

Essentials of Blackfold Dynamics

Trialities and Exceptional Lie Algebras: DECONSTRUCTING the Magic Square

Non-destructive Imaging of Individual Bio-Molecules

A Small-Molecule Inhibitor of Tgf-β Signaling Replaces Sox2 in Reprogramming by Inducing Nanog

Comprehensive Mapping of Long-Range Interactions Reveals Folding Principles of the Human Genome

Between the folds

Selected papers of the week (05.to.09.10.09)

Quantum signatures of chaos in a kicked top

Interferometric signature of non-Abelian anyons

A note on the analogy between superfluids and cosmology



Comprehensive Mapping of Long-Range Interactions Reveals Folding Principles of the Human Genome

Origins and functional impact of copy number variation in the human genome

About Prizes and Pictures

This week the Spitzer Space Telescope reveals a supersized dust belt.




A New Graphical Representation of the Periodic Table

See the winners of this year’s Nikon Small World competition

Participate on the International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge

This year’s Nobel Prizes in Physics have been awarded to Charles Kao, for fiber optics, and Willard Boyle and George Smith, for charge-coupled devices

Telomere Copy Protection: Nobel Goes To Scientists Who Solved How Chromosome Ends Work

Selected papers of the week (28.to.02.10.09)

*Special issue of Science — Ardipithecus ramidus

A state-mutating genetic algorithm to design ion-channel models

Nbs1 Flexibly Tethers Ctp1 and Mre11-Rad50 to Coordinate DNA Double-Strand Break Processing and Repair

Longitudinal histories as predictors of future diagnoses of domestic abuse: modelling study

Global Sources of Local Pollution: An Assessment of Long-Range Transport of Key Air Pollutants to and from the United States (2009)