Videos of the week

The Known Universe by AMNH

Visualizing empires decline

FASTRA II official movie

Deepest Ocean Eruption Recorded

A Sampling of the Work of Members
Elected in 2008

Prague from the TV Tower - 18 Gigapixel Panoramic Photo

Selected papers of the week (14.to.18.12.09)

Mapping Human Genetic Diversity in Asia

A minimal sequence code for switching protein structure and function

Computational limits to binary genes

Meteorite Kr in Earth’s Mantle Suggests a Late Accretionary Source for the Atmosphere


Geodynamics of the Yellowstone hotspot and mantle plume: Seismic and GPS imaging, kinematics, and mantle flow




Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections

Selected papers of the week (05.to.11.12.09)

The Kerr/CFT correspondence

Time and Spacetime: The Crystallizing Block Universe

Exceptional structured noncoding RNAs revealed by bacterial metagenome analysis

Nuclear Receptor-Induced Chromosomal Proximity and DNA Breaks Underlie Specific Translocations in Cancer

Sensitivities of marine carbon fluxes to ocean change

This week videos

What Science Tells Us About the Hidden Universe

Justice at Harvard

The Crescent and the Cross (BBC)

Innovation and the Transformation of the Global Energy System

Sunitha Krishnan's fight against sex slavery+

Chromoscope of the Mily Way

quest of the week

This week videos

Finding a better way for computers to "see"
by Cox Lab @ Rowland Institute

Intel Labs announces Single-chip Cloud Computing experimental chip

The Machine is (Changing) Us: YouTube and the Politics of Authenticity

Your Brain at Work

Hans Rosling: Asia's rise -- how and when

Selected papers of the past week (31.to.04.12.09)

Proteome Organization in a Genome-Reduced Bacterium

Impact of Genome Reduction on Bacterial Metabolism and Its Regulation

Direct cell reprogramming is a stochastic process amenable to acceleration

The Triassic dicynodont Kombuisia (Synapsida, Anomodontia) from Antarctica, a refuge from the terrestrial Permian-Triassic mass extinction

Nailing Down Nickel for Electrocatalysis