Photos and videos of the week

BEST PHOTOS: Nat Geo Global Contest Winners, 2009



How the human brain works

Astronomy Photographer of the Year



"Alien" Jellyfish Found in Arctic Deep

This week in Mathematics and Computation

The Video Genome

Nanoscale Memristor Device as Synapse in Neuromorphic Systems

Synchrony of Thalamocortical Inputs Maximizes Cortical Reliability

Retinal Parallel Processors: More than 100 Independent Microcircuits Operate within a Single Interneuron

Neuronal synchrony reveals working memory networks and predicts individual memory capacity

Introducing Gephi 0.7 from gephi on Vimeo.

This week in Astronomy and Physics

No climate paradox under the faint early Sun

Exploring laser-wakefield-accelerator regimes for near-term lasers using particle-in-cell simulation in Lorentz-boosted frames

Noncommutative Geometry as a Framework for Unification of all Fundamental Interactions including Gravity. Part I

Self-organization in He4 near the superfluid transition in heat flow and gravity

The Superfluid Universe

The Galaxy Luminosity Function during the Reionization Epoch

Discovery of a very cool brown dwarf amongst the ten nearest stars to the Solar System

This week in Biology and Chemistry

Methane-eating microbes make their own oxygen

Genomes as documents of evolutionary history

Phenotypic profiling of the human genome by time-lapse microscopy reveals cell division genes

Prions, protein homeostasis, and phenotypic diversity

Modularity map of the network of human cell differentiation

Interactions among predators and the cascading effects of vertebrate insectivores on arthropod communities and plants

Polymer surface nano-structuring of reverse osmosis membranes for fouling resistance and improved flux performance

This week in Ecology and Society

A global database of soil respiration data

The New World of the Anthropocene

Can in situ floats and satellite altimeters detect long-term changes in Atlantic Ocean overturning?

Iron enrichment stimulates toxic diatom production in high-nitrate, low-chlorophyll areas

Paleo-perspectives on ocean acidification

Ecosystem stewardship: sustainability strategies for a rapidly changing planet

Estimating Ideological Positions of Candidates and Contributors from Campaign Finance Records

Photos and videos of the week

Quiz of the week

Descendants from Goro Fujita on Vimeo.

This week on Ecology and Society

StatPlanet



Assessing the Role of Microfinance in Fostering Adaptation to Climate Change

Tropical cyclones and climate change

Mesolimbic Dopamine Reward System Hypersensitivity in Individuals with Psychopathic Traits



Compound-specific carbon isotopes from Earth’s largest flood basalt eruptions directly linked to the end-Triassic mass extinction

The angular velocities of the plates and the velocity of Earth's centre from space geodesy

This week on Mathematics and Computation

Stimulus Predictability Reduces Responses in Primary Visual Cortex

Experience-driven formation of parts-based representations in a model of layered visual memory

A framework for modeling the growth and development of neurons and networks



Holonomy of a principal composite bundle connection, non-abelian geometric phases and gauge theory of gravity

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2010 to John Torrence Tate, University of Texas at Austin, for his vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers.

Prize for Resolution of the Poincaré Conjecture Awarded to Dr. Grigoriy Perelman

This week in Astronomy and Physics

Three-Dimensional Invisibility Cloak at Optical Wavelengths

Variations in the Sun’s Meridional Flow over a Solar Cycle

Intense star formation within resolved compact regions in a galaxy at z = 2.3

Escape of about five per cent of Lyman-α photons from highredshift star-forming galaxies



Eliminating Turbulence in Spatially Intermittent Flows

Bi-metric theory of gravity from the non-chiral Plebanski action

This week on Biology and Chemistry

Genetic analysis of variation in transcription factor binding in yeast

Variation in Transcription Factor Binding Among Humans

Heritable Individual-Specific and Allele-Specific Chromatin Signatures in Humans

A combined method for producing homogeneous glycoproteins with eukaryotic N-glycosylation

The simplicity of completion time distributions for common complex biochemical processes

Eye position predicts what number you have in mind

Ecology and Society (week.15.to.19.03.2010)

Micro-Macro Relation of Production - The Double Scaling Law for Statistical Physics of Economy

Bioremediation of Turbid Surface Water Using Seed Extract from Moringa oleifera Lam.

Direct Water Splitting Through Vibrating Piezoelectric Microfibers in Water

The Effect of Landscape Position on Biomass Crop Yield

Hydroxyl Radical Substitution in Halogenated Carbonyls: Oxalic Acid Formation

Mathematics and Computation (week.15.to.19.03.2010)

The Brave New World of Bodacious Assumptions in Cryptography.

MiDReG: A method of mining developmentally regulated genes using Boolean implications

A Quick Guide for Developing Effective Bioinformatics Programming Skills

Division Algebras and Supersymmetry II

Probability distributions with summary graph structure

Emergence from Symmetry: A New Type of Cellular Automata

Astronomy and Physics (week.15.to.19.03.2010)

Nearby Supernova Factory Observations of SN 2007if: First Total Mass Measurement of a Super-Chandrasekhar-Mass Progenitor

Leptophilic Dark Matter from the Lepton Asymmetry

Chiral gravity, log gravity, and extremal CFT

Majorana fermions in a tunable semiconductor device

Quantum ground state and single-phonon control of a mechanical resonator

Nanoscale Proximity Effect in the High-Temperature Superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ Using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope

A transiting giant planet with a temperature between 250 K and 430 K

Videos and Photos (week.15.to.19.03.2010)

Galleries / Beautifully Detailed Supercomputer Simulations

Paris @ 26 Gigapixels

Go into a NASA Clean Room Daily with the Webb Telescope via NASA's 'Webb-cam

Drunken Robot

Attack on Pearl Harbor (58 pics)

The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.

Biology and Chemistry (week.15.to.19.03.2010)

In Crystallo Posttranslational Modification Within a MauG/Pre–Methylamine Dehydrogenase Complex

Toward Extracting All Phylogenetic Information from Matrices of Evolutionary Distances

Kinetochore alignment within the metaphase plate is regulated by centromere stiffness and microtubule depolymerases

Rethinking screening

Amniotic Fluid Cells Are More Efficiently Reprogrammed to Pluripotency Than Adult Cells

The dynamic genome of Hydra

Encoding multiple unnatural amino acids via evolution of a quadruplet-decoding ribosome

Mathematics and Computation (week.08.to.12.03.2010)

Phong Tessellation

Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide

by the way, try yourself in:

Google public data explorer

Learning as a phenomenon occurring in a critical state

Revolutionizing Transportation with IA

ACM Turing Award Goes to Creator of First Modern Personal Computer

Biology and Chemistry (week.08.to.12.03.2010)

Cetaceans Have Complex Brains for Complex Cognition

Endothelial Cells Are Essential for the Self-Renewal and Repopulation of Notch-Dependent Hematopoietic Stem Cells

Natural Products Version 2.0: Connecting Genes to Molecules

Centromeres Convert but Don't Cross

The evolution of phototransduction from an ancestral cyclic nucleotide gated pathway

Sex determination: An avian sexual revolution

Photos and videos of the week (08.to.12.03.2010)

El más grande se come al más pequeño

All Creative Work Is Derivative

Gallery: The Complete UAV Field Guide

Internet growth

TRON LEGACY Official Trailer #2

Physics and Astronomy (week.08.to.12.03.2010)

Geodynamo, Solar Wind, and Magnetopause 3.4 to 3.45 Billion Years Ago

Spectrum of the Isotropic Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission Derived from First-Year Fermi Large Area Telescope Data

Confirmation of general relativity on large scales from weak lensing and galaxy velocities

Measuring the Transmission Matrix in Optics: An Approach to the Study and Control of Light Propagation in Disordered Media

Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Anderson-Localized Modes

Polyethylene nanofibres with very high thermal conductivities

Ecology and Society (week.08.to.12.03.2010)

Extensive Methane Venting to the Atmosphere from Sediments of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf

Contributions of Stratospheric Water Vapor to Decadal Changes in the Rate of Global Warming




Fermentable sugars by chemical hydrolysis of biomass

Wind power generation with a parawing on ships, a proposal

Global Warming Pattern Formation: Sea Surface Temperature and Rainfall

Biology and chemistry (week.01.to.05.03.2010)

Elastic energy of proteins and the stages of protein folding

Protein Folding: A Perspective From Statistical Physics

Membrane protein folding makes the transition

Caleydo: Visual Analysis of Gene Expression Data in its Biological Context

Ecologically distinct dinosaurian sister group shows early diversification of Ornithodira

Pictures and Videos (week.01.to.05.03.2010)

The White Mountain

Visualizing Biological Data

Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Killjoy - Mythmakers & Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers On Fiction

Blender Physics Simulations and More

A Short Visual History of Videogames

From the bloody civil wars in Africa to the rag-tag insurgiences in Southeast Asia, 33 conflicts are raging around the world today, and it’s often innocent civilians who suffer the most.

SDO destroy a rainbow

Computation and Mathematics (week.01.to.05.03.2010)

Complementary approaches to understanding the plant circadian clock

IBM Researchers Create Device Which Uses Light for Communication Between Computer Chips

Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration?

Recurrence relation for HOMFLY polynomial and rational specializations

Markov Logic Networks in the Analysis of Genetic Data

Astronomy and Physics (week.01.to.05.03.2010)

Noncommutative quantum analogs of constant curvature spaces

Entanglement between the future and past in the quantum vacuum

Atomic layers of hybridized boron nitride and graphene domains

Nonlocal orbital-free kinetic energy density functional for semiconductors

Light Trapping in Silicon Nanowire Solar Cells