This week on Mathematics and Computation

Ultrafast Fourier Transform with a Femtosecond-Laser-Driven Molecule

State-Dependent Energy Shifts of Rydberg Atoms in a Ponderomotive Optical Lattice

Epigenetics and Cognitive Aging

Comparing genomes to computer operating systems in terms of the topology and evolution of their regulatory control networks

Assumptions and Axioms: Mathematical Structures to Describe the Physics of Rigid Bodies

This week in Biology and Chemistry

3.3 Å Cryo-EM Structure of a Nonenveloped Virus Reveals a Priming Mechanism for Cell Entry

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

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

Deciphering the splicing code

A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome

This week in Astronomy and Physics

Space-Time Geometry of Topological phases

The quantum vacuum at the foundations of classical electrodynamics

Holography in Action

Gravity-Induced Vacuum Dominance

New Mechanism for Quark Energy Loss

Photos and videos of the week

Epic Panorama of Dubai in 45 GigaPixels

your face in 20 years

This week in Ecology and Society

The FuturIcT Knowledge Accelerator: Unleashing the Power of Information for a Sustainable Future

Treatment of dairy manure effluent using freshwater algae: Algal productivity and recovery of manure nutrients using pilot-scale algal turf scrubbers

Consumption-based accounting of CO2 emissions

Evaluating the Relative Environmental Impact of Countries

Design strategies to minimize the radiative efficiency of global warming molecules

Diversity dynamics of Miocene mammals in relation to the history of tectonism and climate

This week in Astronomy and Physics

Imaging and manipulating the spin direction of individual atoms

Effect of Polymer Additives on the Wetting of Impacting Droplets

Continuous Quantum Phase Transition between an Antiferromagnet and a Valence-Bond Solid in Two Dimensions: Evidence for Logarithmic Corrections to Scaling

Deep exclusive charged π electroproduction above the resonance region

Unification of gravity, gauge fields, and Higgs bosons

Detection of ice and organics on an asteroidal surface

Major Galaxy Mergers and the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes in Quasars

This week in Mathematics and Computation

Massively parallel computing on an organic molecular layer

Dendritic organization of sensory input to cortical neurons in vivo

Non-Abelian Tensor Gauge Fields

On Dark Matter, Spiral Galaxies, and the Axioms of General Relativity

Frontal Cortex and the Discovery of Abstract Action Rules

Growth-Algorithm Model of Leaf Shape

Model-based method for transcription factor target identification with limited data

This week in Ecology and Society

Fifty Years of U.S. Embargo: Cuba's Health Outcomes and Lessons

Asian Monsoon Transport of Pollution to the Stratosphere

Abiotic nitrous oxide emission from the hypersaline Don Juan Pond in Antarctica

Formulating a Historical and Demographic Model of Recent Human Evolution Based on Resequencing Data from Noncoding Regions

Complexity and Diversity

Quantification of global gross forest cover loss

Strong export of Antarctic Bottom Water east of the Kerguelen plateau

This week in Biology and Chemistry

Network integration meets network dynamics

In vitro bacterial polysaccharide biosynthesis: defining the functions of Wzy and Wzz

D-Amino Acids Trigger Biofilm Disassembly

Light-Induced Structural Changes in a Photosynthetic Reaction Center Caught by Laue Diffraction

A role for host–parasite interactions in the horizontal transfer of transposons across phyla

Interpretation of Association Signals and Identification of Causal Variants from Genome-wide Association Studies

Unique multipotent cells in adult human mesenchymal cell populations

This week in Mathematics and Computation:

Topos Methods in the Foundations of Physics

The Fedosov manifolds and magnetic monopole

Ordered groups, eigenvalues, knots, surgery and L-spaces

Lateral competition for cortical space by layer-specific horizontal circuits

Efficient Physical Embedding of Topologically Complex Information Processing Networks in Brains and Computer Circuits

The Computational Structure of Spike Trains

One dimensional chain of quantum coherent molecule motors as a model for muscle fibre

Photos and videos of the week

Plastic Bag by Ramin Bahrani

Airspace Rebooted from ItoWorld on Vimeo.

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This week in Ecology and Society

State of the Planet: A Snapshot [Audio Slide Show]

Special Online Collection: Science, Language, and Literacy

Evidence for the role of organics in aerosol particle formation under atmospheric conditions

Water as an essential nutrient: the physiological basis of hydration

Ecological processes can synchronize marine population dynamics over continental scales

Universal model for water costs of gas exchange by animals and plants

Asian Monsoon Failure and Megadrought During the Last Millennium

This week in Biology and Chemistry

A Role for Codon Order in Translation Dynamics

The Origin of Life and the Crystallization of Aspartic Acid in Water

Systematic Analysis of Viral and Cellular MicroRNA Targets in Cells Latently Infected with Human γ-Herpesviruses by RISC Immunoprecipitation Assay

Cooperation Between Translating Ribosomes and RNA Polymerase in Transcription Elongation

SUMO-Specific Protease 2 Is Essential for Suppression of Polycomb Group Protein-Mediated Gene Silencing during Embryonic Development

Retinal Glial Cells Enhance Human Vision Acuity

The TALE Class Homeobox Gene Smed-prep Defines the Anterior Compartment for Head Regeneration

This week in Astronomy and Physics

Halo-Shape and Relic-Density Exclusions of Sommerfeld-Enhanced Dark Matter Explanations of Cosmic Ray Excesses

Up on the Jaynes–Cummings ladder of a quantum-dot/microcavity system

Thermodynamics of Quantum Jump Trajectories

Cosmological Non-Linearities as an Effective Fluid

Missing Power vs low-l Alignments in the Cosmic Microwave Background: No Correlation in the Standard Cosmological Model

Nanoscale Three-Dimensional Patterning of Molecular Resists by Scanning Probes

High Sensitivity Deflection Detection of Nanowires

Photos and Videos of the week

Comets, the Solar System's Most Spectacular Nomads

Timescapes: "Death is the Road to Awe" from Tom Lowe @ Timescapes on Vimeo.

2010 Iceland Volcano Pics



Infographic: Is Cash Nearing Extinction?

This week in Mathematics and Computation

Neuronal synchrony reveals working memory networks and predicts individual memory capacity

Widespread transcription at neuronal activity-regulated enhancers

Divided Representation of Concurrent Goals in the Human Frontal Lobes

A unified theory of chaos linking nonlinear dynamics and statistical physics

Topological Field Theory, Higher Categories, and Their Applications

Categorified symmetries

Random numbers certified by Bell’s theorem

This week in Biology and Chemistry

An organic redox electrolyte to rival triiodide/iodide in dye-sensitized solar cells

The complete mitochondrial DNA genome of an unknown hominin from southern Siberia

The complete mitochondrial DNA genome of an unknown hominin from southern Siberia">Special Feature: Australopithecus sediba

Synergistic Effects Between Conventional Antibiotics and 2-Aminoimidazole-Derived Antibiofilm Agents.

Imprints of the genetic code in the ribosome

Five-Vertebrate ChIP-seq Reveals the Evolutionary Dynamics of Transcription Factor Binding

Single-Neuron Responses in Humans during Execution and Observation of Actions

This week in Astronomy and Physics

Links between eccentricity forcing and the 100,000-year glacial cycle

Generation and control of sound bullets with a nonlinear acoustic lens

The Big Bang and Inflation United by an Analytic Solution

Infrared images of the transiting disk in the ϵ Aurigae system

Two-Dimensional Phonon Transport in Supported Graphene

Thermodynamically Admissible 13 Moment Equations from the Boltzmann Equation

Hidden Conformal Symmetry of the Kerr Black Hole

This week in Ecology and Society

New 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Grande Ronde lavas, Columbia River Basalts, USA: Implications for duration of flood basalt eruption episodes

Reviews in social neuroscience

Evolutionary Trade-Offs in Plants Mediate the Strength of Trophic Cascades

A Matrix-Calibrated Species-Area Model for Predicting Biodiversity Losses Due to Land-Use Change

Microbial Life in a Liquid Asphalt Desert

Significant CO2 fixation by small prymnesiophytes in the subtropical and tropical northeast Atlantic Ocean

Observation of halogen species in the Amundsen Gulf, Arctic, by active long-path differential optical absorption spectroscopy