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Hayaku: A Time Lapse Journey Through Japan from Brad Kremer on Vimeo.

This week in Biology and Chemistry

Viral Reorganization of the Secretory Pathway Generates Distinct Organelles for RNA Replication

Defects and DNA Replication

taphylococcus aureus Nonribosomal Peptide Secondary Metabolites Regulate VirulenceS

The folding cooperativity of a protein is controlled by its chain topology

The key nickel enzyme of methanogenesis catalyses the anaerobic oxidation of methane

This week in Astronomy and Physics

Verification of Universal Relations in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas

An entangled-light-emitting diode

Micromanaging de Sitter holography

High energy scattering in gravity and supergravity

An omnidirectional electromagnetic absorber made of metamaterials

Large Earthquake Triggering, Clustering, and the Synchronization of Faults

This week in Ecology and Society

Minority vs. majority: An experimental study of standardized bids

Global patterns in the vulnerability of ecosystems to vegetation shifts due to climate change

The Incidence of Fire in Amazonian Forests with Implications for REDD

Fractal Organic Hazes Provided an Ultraviolet Shield for Early Earth

Industrial apiculture in the Jordan valley during Biblical times with Anatolian honeybees

This week in Mathematics and Computation

Spreading of persistent infections in heterogeneous populations

Generalized Calabi-Yau metric and Generalized Monge-Ampere equation

Neural basis of global resting-state fMRI activity

Automatic Musical Pattern Feature Extraction
Using Convolutional Neural Network

The 1958 Pekeris-Accad-WEIZAC Ground-Breaking Collaboration that computed Ground States of Two-Electron Atoms (and its 2010 Redux)

This week Videos and Pics

From sand to silicon

Oil reaches Louisiana shores

This week Videos and Pics

Fallingwater from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo.

ATLAS multimedia contest

The Geotaggers' World Atlas

This week in Mathematics and Computation

Neurogenic radial glia in the outer subventricular zone of human neocortex

States versus Rewards: Dissociable Neural Prediction Error Signals Underlying Model-Based and Model-Free Reinforcement Learning

Derivation of midbrain dopamine neurons from human embryonic stem cells

THE NATURE OF CONTEMPORARY CORE MATHEMATICS

Erlangen Programme at Large 3.1: Hypercomplex Representations of the Heisenberg Group and Mechanics

Exotic Smoothness in Four Dimensions and Euclidean Quantum Gravity

Recurrent, Robust and Scalable Patterns Underlie Human Approach and Avoidance

This week in Ecology and Society

The Long Run Geopolitics of Space Settlements

Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change

Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines

Ventilation of the Deep Southern Ocean and Deglacial CO2 Rise

Protected areas reduced poverty in Costa Rica and Thailand

Evaluating the Relative Environmental Impact of Countries

A simplified description of the evolution of organic aerosol composition in the atmosphere

This week in Biology and Chemistry

Covering a Broad Dynamic Range: Information Processing at the Erythropoietin Receptor

A natural mechanism for l-homochiralization of prebiotic aminoacids

On the prebiotic potential of reduced oxidation state phosphorus: the H-phosphinate–pyruvate system

Chiral-auxiliary-mediated 1,2-cis-glycosylations for the solid-supported synthesis of a biologically important branched α-glucan

Beyond the infinite - tracking bacterial gene expression

Horizontal Gene Transfer by the Parasitic Plant Striga hermonthica

A genomic and proteomic investigation of the impact of preimplantation factor on human decidual http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/328/5982/1128cells

This week in Astronomy and Physics

Snowmelt hydrograph interpretation: Revealing watershed scale hydrologic characteristics of the Yellowstone volcanic plateau

Measurement of the Instantaneous Velocity of a Brownian Particle

Cold quark matter

Self-Refraction of Supernova Neutrinos: Mixed Spectra and Three-Flavor Instabilities

Critical entropies for magnetic ordering in bosonic mixtures on a lattice

Quantum random networks

The construction of Chasma Boreale on Mars

Videos and Photos of the week

A survey of powerful visualization techniques, from the obvious to the obscure

This week in Ecology and Society

Nickel-borate oxygen-evolving catalyst that functions under benign conditions

Quantification of global gross forest cover loss

The Hartwell Paper: a new direction for climate policy after the crash of 2009

Transfer of a cyanobacterial neurotoxin within a temperate aquatic ecosystem suggests pathways for human exposure

Robust warming of the global upper ocean

Climate change and the global malaria recession

This week in Astronomy and Physics

Evidence for an anomalous like-sign dimuon charge asymmetry

Relativistic and Quantum Electrodynamics Effects in the Helium Pair Potential

Capturing the Crystalline Phase of Two-Dimensional Nanocrystal Superlattices in Action

Evidence for F(uzz) Theory

On the geometry of loop quantum gravity on a graph

Self-Completeness of Einstein Gravity

A faint type of supernova from a white dwarf with a helium-rich companion

Star Formation Timescales and the Schmidt Law

Relative velocity of dark matter and baryonic fluids and the formation of the first structures

Reconciling surface plate motions with rapid three-dimensional mantle flow around a slab edge

The Enigmatic Inner Core

This week on Mathematics and Computation

A Tour through the Visualization Zoo

Efficient Algorithms and Data Structures for Massive Data Sets

Characterizing Light-Regulated Retinal MicroRNAs Reveals Rapid Turnover as a Common Property of Neuronal MicroRNAs

Asymptotic properties of the quantum representations of the mapping class group

Renormalized Free Energy on Space-time with Compact Hyperbolic Spatial Part

Asymptotic properties of the quantum representations of the modular group

Jordan C*-Algebras and Supergravity

Exotic smooth structures on $S^2\times S^2$

Permutationally invariant quantum tomography

This Amazing week in Biology and Chemistry

Microevolution of Group A Streptococci In Vivo: Capturing Regulatory Networks Engaged in Sociomicrobiology, Niche Adaptation, and Hypervirulence

A Catalog of Reference Genomes from the Human Microbiome

Most “Dark Matter” Transcripts Are Associated With Known Genes

Sequence space and the ongoing expansion of the protein universe

Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome

A three-dimensional model of the yeast genome

Real-Time Atomistic Description of DNA Unfolding

Liquid glass electrodes for nanofluidics

Toward Flexibility−Activity Relationships by NMR Spectroscopy: Dynamics of Pin1 Ligands




Genetic Re-disposition: Combined stem cell-gene therapy approach cures human genetic disease in vitro

This week in Mathematics and Computation

Massively parallel computing on an organic molecular layer

Altered Histone Acetylation Is Associated with Age-Dependent Memory Impairment in Mice

High Firing Rate of Neonatal Hippocampal Interneurons Is Caused by Attenuation of Afterhyperpolarizing Potassium Currents by Tonically Active Kainate Receptors

Is memory consolidation a multiple-circuit system?

Molecular robots guided by prescriptive landscapes

Projective BGG equations, algebraic sets, and compactifications of Einstein geometries

Global classical solutions of the Boltzmann equation with long-range interactions

This week in Ecology and Society

Ecological processes can synchronize marine population dynamics over continental scales

Role of macroscopic particles in deep-sea oxygen consumption

Responses of terrestrial ecosystems and carbon budgets to current and future environmental variability

Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980—2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5

Inductive Game Theory and the Dynamics of Animal Conflict

Erosion of Lizard Diversity by Climate Change and Altered Thermal Niches

Global Biodiversity Outlook 3

This week in Astronomy and Physics

Mantle upwellings above slab graveyards linked to the global geoid lows

Hemispherical anisotropic patterns of the Earth’s inner core

Theoretical ingredients of a Casimir analog computer

Electromagnetically induced transparency with single atoms in a cavity

Time-resolved observation of coherent multi-body interactions in quantum phase revivals

A possible mathematics for the unification of quantum mechanics and general relativity

Testing the No-Hair Theorem with Observations in the Electromagnetic Spectrum: II. Black-Hole Images

This week in Biology and Chemistry

Quantum entanglement in photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes

Dynamic Ca2+-Dependent Stimulation of Vesicle Fusion by Membrane-Anchored Synaptotagmin 1

Archaeopteryx feathers and bone chemistry fully revealed via synchrotron imaging

A formal test of the theory of universal common ancestry

Deciphering the splicing code

A proximity-based programmable DNA nanoscale assembly line

Multiple modes of interconverting dynamic pattern formation by bacterial cell division proteins

This week Photos and Videos

The Vader Project

America's Ten Most Dangerous Volcanoes




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