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Los cielos de America!

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.

VizLegends from Aidan Slingsby on Vimeo.

This week in Biology and Chemistry

Selection of a DNA aptamer for homocysteine using SELEX from Maureen McKeague on Vimeo.

Pathways of mechanical unfolding of FnIII10: Low force intermediates

Homologue structure of the SLAC1 anion channel for closing stomata in leaves

Fine-scale recombination rate differences between sexes, populations and individual

A map of human genome variation from population-scale sequencing

Effect of Oligonucleotide Length on the Assembly of DNA Materials: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Layer-by-Layer DNA Films

Fitness Correlates of Heritable Variation in Antibody Responsiveness in a Wild Mammal

This week in Ecology and Society

Late middle Eocene epoch of Libya yields earliest known radiation of African anthropoids

The evolution of the marine phosphate reservoir

This week in Biology and Chemistry

Spontaneous Asymmetry of Coated Spherical Nanoparticles in Solution and at Liquid-Vapor Interfaces

Deletion of the Cel48S cellulase from Clostridium thermocellum

NMR-Based Protein Potentials

xnd-1 regulates the global recombination landscape in Caenorhabditis elegans

Atomic-Level Characterization of the Structural Dynamics of Proteins

Rapid Construction of Empirical RNA Fitness Landscapes

Direct visualization of secondary structures of F-actin by electron cryomicroscopy

This week in Mathematics and Computation

Markov Chains and Dynamical Systems: The Open System Point of View

Algorithmic Thermodynamics

Algebra, Topology and Algebraic Topology of 3D Ideal Fluids

Kolmogorov Complexity in perspective. Part II: Classification, Information Processing and Duality

Progress in number theory in the years 1998-2009

Some Curvature Problems in Semi-Riemannian Geometry

A simple derivation and classification of common probability distributions based on information symmetry and measurement scale

On the Scaling Law for Compressive Sensing and its Applications




Lecture delivered before the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris in 1900, by Professor David Hilbert

This week in Astronomy and Physics

Structure of 30S with 32S(p,t)30S and the thermonuclear 29P(p,γ)30S reaction rate

Time-reversal-symmetry breaking in circuit-QED-based photon lattices

Topological Quantization in Units of the Fine Structure Constant

Gas accretion as the origin of chemical abundance gradients in distant galaxies

Particle Acceleration on Megaparsec Scales in a Merging Galaxy Cluster

Real-space observation of emergent magnetic monopoles and associated Dirac strings in artificial kagome spin ice

The Structure of Iron in Earth’s Inner Core

This week in Ecology and Society

Precipitation-generated oscillations in open cellular cloud fields

Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

An Oxidative Enzyme Boosting the Enzymatic Conversion of Recalcitrant Polysaccharides

World Wildlife Fund’s latest edition of its biennial Living Planet Report

Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific

Atmospheric CO2: Principal Control Knob Governing Earth’s Temperature

Global demographic trends and future carbon emissions

Pictures and Videos of the week

Nikon small world 2010 winners

Space Craft Contest

The Year’s Best Fossil Finds

Visions of toxic industrial splendour

Timelapse Crane Unleashed from Tom Lowe @ Timescapes on Vimeo.

Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 - Teaser from Thiago Costa on Vimeo.

This week in Biology and Chemistry

The elastic energy of sharply bent nicked DNA

Two Histone Marks Establish the Inner Centromere and Chromosome Bi-Orientation

Mechano-chemistry of the enzyme Guanylate Kinase

Quantifying enzymatic lysis: estimating the combined effects of chemistry, physiology and physics

An unprecedented nucleic acid capture mechanism for excision of DNA damage

Purified human BRCA2 stimulates RAD51-mediated recombination

This week in Mathematics and Computation

Algorithmic Thermodynamics

Read the Web Project

Network-level structural covariance in the developing brain

Prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia contributions to visual working memory

Functional connectivity in the retina at the resolution of photoreceptors

Pictures and Videos of the week

New species from New Guinea

Photo competition: Science in motion

This week in Astronomy and Physics

Chemical composition of simulated Titan's midatmospheric aerosols

The Profound Spinor Combination of Space-time-matter

Quantum gravitational contributions to quantum electrodynamics

An influence of solar spectral variations on radiative forcing of climate

High star formation rates as the origin of turbulence in early and modern disk galaxies

This week in Ecology and Society

Journalism in the Age of Data from Geoff McGhee on Vimeo.

Climate mitigation and the future of tropical landscapes

Satellite-based global-ocean mass balance estimates of interannual variability and emerging trends in continental freshwater discharge

The Evolution and Future of Earth’s Nitrogen Cycle

Forecasting potential global environmental costs of livestock production 2000–2050

Wasted Food, Wasted Energy: The Embedded Energy in Food Waste in the United States

Has the ozone hole contributed to increased Antarctic sea ice extent?

The evolution of eusociality

Volcanic ash fuels anomalous plankton bloom in subarctic northeast Pacific

Structure and Response in the World Trade Network

Significance of Ecological Factors in the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition

This week in Astronomy and Physics

Generation of three-qubit entangled states using superconducting phase qubits

The Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: A 3.1 M_Earth Planet in the Habitable Zone of the Nearby M3V Star Gliese 581

Devonian rise in atmospheric oxygen correlated to the radiations of terrestrial plants and large predatory fish

New Look At The Path Integral Of Quantum Mechanics

Noncommutative Spherically Symmetric Spaces

Pictures and Videos of the week

Census of the seas

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This week in Ecology and Society

Effects of past, present, and future ocean carbon dioxide concentrations on the growth and survival of larval shellfish

Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity

Carbon Biosequestration by Plants and the Prospects of Genetic Engineering

Navigating transformations in governance of Chilean marine coastal resources

Human Adaptation and Plant Use in Highland New Guinea 49,000 to 44,000 Years Ago

This week in Biology and Chemistry

Evidence for the prepattern/cooption model of vertebrate jaw evolution

How and Why Chromosome Inversions Evolve

Relating n-Pentane Isomerization Activity to the Tungsten Surface Density of WOx/ZrO2

Synthesis of polyynes to model the sp-carbon allotrope carbyne

High Frequency of Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Oceans

Bioenergetic cost of making an adenosine triphosphate molecule in animal mitochondria

Complex Systems View of Educational Policy Research

This week in Mathematics and Computation

A Dynamic Neural Field Model of Mesoscopic Cortical Activity Captured with Voltage-Sensitive Dye Imaging

Oscillatory phase coupling coordinates anatomically dispersed functional cell assemblies

Emergent complex neural dynamics

Challenges in protein-folding simulations

Information heat engine: converting information to energy by feedback control

Preparation and measurement of three-qubit entanglement in a superconducting circuit