Ecology and Society (week.01.to.05.03.2010)

Dual role of lignin in plant litter decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems

Rules for Biologically Inspired Adaptive Network Design

Atrazine induces complete feminization and chemical castration in male African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis)

Volcanic triggering of a biogeochemical cascade during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2

Drivers of Inequality in Millennium Development Goal Progress: A Statistical Analysis

Biology and Chemistry (extra weekend edition)

Antagonistic coevolution accelerates molecular evolution

Mutational Analysis of the Poly(ADP-Ribosyl)ation Sites of the Transcription Factor CTCF Provides an Insight into the Mechanism of Its Regulation by Poly(ADP-Ribosyl)ation

Direct Restart of a Replication Fork Stalled by a Head-On RNA Polymerase

A tetrahedral entropy for water

Special Feature: Method of the Year

Protein folding stability and dynamics imaged in a living cell

The simplicity of completion time distributions for common complex biochemical processes

Photos and videos of the week (22.to.26.02.2010)

Embrace Life - always wear your seat belt

La dama y la muerte - the lady and the reaper.

Blood Falls at Taylor Glacier, Antarctica

Hitler learns a painful lesson about Cloud Computing security.

During your lifetime:

TEDTalks : Pawan Sinha on how brains learn to see - Pawan Sinha (2009)

Section: Astronomy and Physics (week.22.to.26.02.2010)

Higgs for Graviton: Simple and Elegant Solution

Entropic Accelerating Universe

When scalar field is kinetically coupled to the Einstein tensor

Field Evolution of Coexisting Superconducting and Magnetic Orders in CeCoIn5

Exploring the thermodynamics of a universal Fermi gas

Selective and efficient quantum process tomography with single photons

Section: Ecology and Society (week.22.to.26.02.2010)

Significant Acidification in Major Chinese Croplands

Logistical feasibility and potential benefits of a population-wide passive-immunotherapy program during an influenza pandemic

Rewiring for adaptation

Electric field enhanced hydrogen storage on polarizable materials substrates

Dissipation and displacement of hotspots in reaction-diffusion models of crime

Electric currents couple spatially separated biogeochemical processes in marine sediment

Section: Biology and Chemistry (week.22.to.26.02.2010)

Forgetting Is Regulated through Rac Activity in Drosophila

Independent initiation of primary electron transfer in the two branches of the photosystem I reaction center

Compartmentalization by directional gene expression

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

Multiple translational products from a five-nucleotide ribozyme

Ancient animal microRNAs and the evolution of tissue identity

Direct conversion of fibroblasts to functional neurons by defined factors

Section: Mathematics and Computation (week.22.to.26.02.2010)

Starting a Productivity Revolution in Parallel Computation

Marcus du Sautoy: Symmetry, reality's riddle

A meta-level true random number generator

Distributed neural system for general intelligence revealed by lesion mapping

Limits of Predictability in Human Mobility

Photos and videos of the weekend (extra!)

Relief: 3D interactive maps

Infographic: NASA’s New Budget

International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners

Flyfire-Vision_h264.mov

Scientific American World Changing Ideas Video Contest

Photos and videos of the week (week.15.to.19.02.2010)

ISS Tour - Welcome To The International Space Station!

Compare the cost of finantial and Irak war crisis against feed and educate every child on earth for 5 years! or Rational Economy?

Temporal pixel multiplexing for simultaneous high-speed, high-resolution imaging

Cantor Exhibition Spotlights 20th Century Chinese Artists

CubeStormer

Section: Ecology and Society (week.15.to.19.02.2010)

Geometrization of Some Epidemic Models

Climate engineering by artificial ocean upwelling: Channelling the sorcerer's apprentice

On the Empirical Relationship between Large Dams and the Alteration in Extreme Precipitation

Upside-down differentiation and generation of a ‘primordial’ lower mantle

David Cameron: The next age of government

Section: Mathematics and Computation (week.15.to.19.02.2010)

A Neurophysiologically Plausible Population Code Model for Feature Integration Explains Visual Crowding

Josephson junction simulation of neurons

Regulation of neuronal activity by Cav3-Kv4 channel signaling complexes

The Query Complexity of Estimating Weighted Averages

Running Large Graph Algorithms: Evaluation of Current State-Of-Arts and Lessons Learned

Kinetic relations for undercompressive shock waves. Physical, mathematical, and numerical issues

Section: Astronomy and Physics (week.15.to.19.02.2010)

Distortion of the stellar sky by a Schwarzschild black hole

Better than "flashes": Transactions

Structure and Phase Boundaries of Compressed Liquid Hydrogen

Diamagnetism and Cooper pairing above Tc in cuprates

A precision measurement of the gravitational redshift by the interference of matter waves

Section: Biology and Chemistry (week.15.to.19.02.2010)

A synthetic small molecule that can walk
down a track.

Quantum-State Controlled Chemical Reactions of Ultracold Potassium-Rubidium Molecules

Neutral networks of genotypes: Evolution behind the curtain

A basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor controls cell growth and size in root hairs

Induced allostery in the directed evolution of an enantioselective Baeyer-Villiger monooxygenase

Photos and videos of the week (08.to.12.02.2010)

Solar Dynamics Observatory

Zeno Visualization of Swan Lake


No Humans, Just Robots – Amazing Videos of the Modern Factory

Views Of Earth From The Middle Ages To The Space Age

Documentary To Follow Bluebrain Project

Section: Mathematics and Computation (week.08.to.12.02.2010)

Sullivan and Yau Win 2010 Wolf Prize

Natural and artificial atoms for quantum computation

An Intelligent System For Effective Forest Fire Detection Using Spatial Data

R-matrix knot invariants and triangulations

BBC Horizon - To Infinity and Beyond

Section: Biology and Chemistry (week.08.to.12.02.2010)

Abundance of Ribosomal RNA Gene Copies Maintains Genome Integrity

Aplysia CPEB Can Form Prion-like Multimers in Sensory Neurons that Contribute to Long-Term Facilitation

An integrated cell-free metabolic platform for protein production and synthetic biology

Quantum-State Controlled Chemical Reactions of Ultracold Potassium-Rubidium Molecules

Section: Ecology and Society (week.08.to.12.02.2010)

Greening Haiti, Tree by Tree

Flow enhances photosynthesis in marine benthic autotrophs by increasing the efflux of oxygen from the organism to the water

Deforestation driven by urban population growth and agricultural trade in the twenty-first century

Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo

A natural-disaster management DSS for Humanitarian Non-Governmental Organisations

Section: Physics and Astronomy (week.08.to.12.02.10)

Characterizing the nonlinear growth of large-scale structure in the Universe

Visualizing Critical Correlations Near the Metal-Insulator Transition in Ga1-xMnxAs

Splitting Spin States on a Chip

High molecular gas fractions in normal massive star-forming galaxies in the young Universe

Nuclear physics: Weighing up the superheavies

Alain Aspect awarded the 2010 Wolf Prize in Physics

Mathematics and Computation (week.01.to.05.02.2010)

Simplifying Parallelization of Scientific Codes by a Function-Centric Approach in Python

Catching a protein in the act

Eye Smarter than Scientists Believed: Neural Computations in Circuits of the Retina

BBC - The Secret Life of Chaos (2010)

Videos and Pictures (week.01.to.05.02.2010)

Obama’s 2011 Budget Proposal: How It’s Spent

Neil Jacobstein - Artificial Intelligence

Photographer Loves Math, Graphs Her Images

“Haiti: Killing the Dream”: Excerpt of Documentary on Centuries of Western Subversion of Haitian Sovereignty

Section Biology and Chemistry (week.01.to.05.02.2010)

Growth Rate-Dependent Global Effects on Gene Expression in Bacteria

Evidence for grid cells in a human memory network

How did LUCA make a living? Chemiosmosis in the origin of life

Evidence for wavelike energy transfer through quantum coherence in photosynthetic systems

World Science News came back online!

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Section Astronomy and Physics:

Epitaxial Graphene on Silicon toward Graphene-Silicon Fusion Electronics

ON THE ENERGY SPECTRA OF GeV/TeV COSMIC RAY LEPTONS

The Revolution in Particle Physics is Here


Section Biology and Chemistry:

Genome-wide erasure of DNA methylation in mouse primordial germ cells is affected by AID deficiency

Femtonewton Entropic Forces Can Control the Formation of Protein-Mediated DNA Loops

Direct conversion of fibroblasts to functional neurons by defined factors

Section Ecology and Society

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

Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People

Please help Haiti recovers

Section Math and Computing

Computing Networks: A General Framework to Contrast Neural and Swarm Architectures

Joint Mathematics returns to SF

+ Selected Videos and Photos

Cell launches a new format for the presentation of research articles online

Sendhil Mullainathan: Solving social problems with a nudge

IMAX Hubble 3D