Photos and videos of the week

Olympus BioScapes 2009 Winners Gallery

Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China

Darwin's Brave New World

BBC Horizon - Why Do We Talk?

Learning from Code History

The Second Conference on Artificial General Intelligence Talks

quest of the week

Selected papers of the week (16.to.20.11.09)

Realization of a programmable two-qubit quantum processor

A Simple Cipher Governs DNA Recognition by TAL Effectors

Solving the Maze

A Lossless Compression Algorithm for DNA sequences

A Nuclear Poly(ADP-Ribose)-Dependent Signalosome Confers DNA Damage-Induced IκB Kinase Activation

Adult Neurogenesis Modulates the Hippocampus-Dependent Period of Associative Fear Memory

Selected papers of the week (09.to.13.11.09)

Negative feedback in the cold: ice retreat produces new carbon sinks in Antarctica

A Robust and Highly Efficient Immune Cell Reprogramming System

Rescue and characterization of episomally replicating DNA from the moss Physcomitrella

Language evolution: The importance of being human

Oxygen and hydrogen isotope evidence for a temperate climate 3.42 billion years ago

Self-assembly of carbon nanotubes into two-dimensional geometries using DNA origami templates

Selected papers of the week (02.to.06.10.09)

Large-scale distribution of Atlantic nitrogen fixation controlled by iron availability

September 2005 mega-dike emplacement in the Manda-Harraro nascent oceanic rift (Afar depression)

Spontaneous fluxoid formation in superconducting loops

Cas A: a neutron star with atmosphere

Profiling the Human Protein-DNA Interactome Reveals ERK2 as a Transcriptional Repressor of Interferon Signaling