Videos and Pictures of the week

NASA's Opportunity rover snapped this stereo image of the terrain leading to Endeavour Crater on Aug. 18. The 3-D effect can be seen using red-blue glasses.

The Astronomy Photographer of the Year

Earth’s Most Stunning Natural Fractal Patterns

This week in Astronomy and Physics

Direct formation of supermassive black holes via multi-scale gas inflows in galaxy merger

Structure of Lanczos-Lovelock Lagrangians in Critical Dimensions

The age of the Solar System redefined by the oldest Pb–Pb age of a meteoritic inclusion

Critical State of the Anderson Transition: Between a Metal and an Insulator

Relative entropy as a measure of inhomogeneity in general relativity

Slab-plume interaction beneath the Pacific Northwest

The Dynamics of Plate Tectonics and Mantle Flow: From Local to Global Scales

This week in Ecology and Society

Mechanisms Used for Genomic Proliferation by Thermophilic Group II Introns

Efficacy of geoengineering to limit 21st century sea-level rise

Modern seawater acidification: the response of foraminifera to high-CO2 conditions in the Mediterranean Sea

The Shifting Balance of Diversity Among Major Marine Animal Groups

Global patterns and predictors of marine biodiversity across taxa

Upper-ocean-to-atmosphere radiocarbon offsets imply fast deglacial carbon dioxide release

Polar front shift and atmospheric CO2 during the glacial maximum of the Early Paleozoic Icehouse

The impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in China

This week in Mathematics and Computation

Clustering high dimensional data using subspace and projected clustering algorithms

Comparative Studies of 10 Programming Languages within 10 Diverse Criteria -- a Team 7 COMP6411-S10 Term Report

Localization of unitary braid group representations

The noncommutative geometry of Yang-Mills fields

Foundations of Inference

Intrinsic biophysical diversity decorrelates neuronal firing while increasing information content

Myosin IIb Regulates Actin Dynamics during Synaptic Plasticity and Memory Formation

A Neural Switch for Active and Passive Fear

This week in Biology and Chemistry

Evolution of the mutation rate

Myosin IIb Regulates Actin Dynamics during Synaptic Plasticity and Memory Formation

The Language of Histone Crosstalk

A New Type of Proton Coordination in an F1Fo-ATP Synthase Rotor Ring

Structure of RCC1 chromatin factor bound to the nucleosome core particle

Structure of RCC1 chromatin factor bound to the nucleosome core particle

An Adaptable Peptide-Based Porous Materia

Graphene Visualizes the First Water Adlayers on Mica at Ambient Conditions