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The Grand Si11iness of 11/11/11 11:11:11 | Of Particular Significance
Matt Strassler 11/11/11 Today is a special day — at least if you are fond of the numeral 1, or the number 11, and especially so if you’re willing to buy in to one of the oldest human pseudo-scientific pursuits: numerology. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I love numbers and I always have. When I was five years old I was mesmerized when my parents’ car reached 99,999.9 miles, and I think 12:34:56 on 7/8/90 is just a cool a time as anybody else does. But I do this with a sense of humor.
Since its inception twenty years ago, The Plant Journal has developed into one of the premier journals in the basic plant sciences. During this period, plant molecular biology has come of age, plant genomics has emerged as a new driving force for discovery, and work on model species such as Arabidopsis and rice has shaped our understanding of basic plant functions. The papers published in The Plant Journal bear witness to these developments in the plant sciences, and to highlight this we have decided to assemble a ―virtual special issue that brings together some of the highest impact papers published in The Plant Journal.
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When the multiverse and many-worlds collide - physics-math - 01 June 2011 - New Scientist
TWO of the strangest ideas in modern physics - that the cosmos constantly splits into parallel universes in which every conceivable outcome of every event happens, and the notion that our universe is part of a larger multiverse - have been unified into a single theory. This solves a bizarre but fundamental problem in cosmology and has set physics circles buzzing with excitement, as well as some bewilderment. The problem is the observability of our universe. While most of us simply take it for granted that we should be able to observe our universe, it is a different story for cosmologists.
Voices: What's Next - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
By Carl Zimmer Scientists can’t say what they’ll be discovering 10 years from now. But they do pay careful attention to the direction in which their fields are moving, and they have some strong hunches about where they are headed in the year ahead. Here are prognostications for science in 2011 from 10 leading figures in 10 widely scattered disciplines, from genomics to mathematics to earth science.
Remarkable morphological stasis in an extant vertebrate despite tens of millions of years of divergence — Proceedings B
The relationship between genotypic and phenotypic divergence over evolutionary time varies widely, and cases of rapid phenotypic differentiation despite genetic similarity have attracted much attention. Here, we report an extreme case of the reverse pattern—morphological stasis in a tropical fish despite massive genetic divergence. We studied the enigmatic African freshwater butterfly fish ( Pantodon buchholzi ), whose distinctive morphology earns it recognition as a monotypic family. We sequenced the mitochondrial genome of Pantodon from the Congo basin and nine other osteoglossomorph taxa for comparison with previous mitogenomic profiles of Pantodon from the Niger basin and other related taxa. Pantodon populations form a monophyletic group, yet their mitochondrial coding sequences differ by 15.2 per cent between the Niger and Congo basins.
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It may be what epidemiologists call “ascertainment bias” (seeing what you want to see), but I detect the beginning of the end of prepublication peer review. The latest death knell is the appearance of a “ liquid journal ” where scientists can post papers without peer review and papers in evolution, data sets, pieces of computer code, or blogs. The new journal is a research project funded by the European Union and supported by the French National Centre for Scientific Research, Springer Science (a major commercial publisher), and others. The new journal (and maybe “journal” is not the best word for such a new thing) is the idea of Fabio Casati, professor of computer science at the University of Trento and the holder of 20 patents. Casati thinks that scientists are spending too much time writing papers, many of them describing tiny incremental developments, and not enough time doing science.
Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Smith: Enter the “liquid journal”
The Moebius Strip © Cie Gilles Jobin 2007 (Image: Dorothée Thébert) The first Collide@CERN-Geneva prize in Dance and Performance was today awarded by jury to the 47-year-old Swiss-born dancer and choreographer Gilles Jobin for his proposal to use interventions and dance to explore the relationship between mind and body at the world's largest particle physics laboratory. Grand opening today of CERN travelling exhibition 'Accelerating Science' in Ankara, Turkey: https://t.co/Olw3Hdg8 http://t.co/OdTJweHJ Mon 02 Apr
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On the Origin of Species
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Mary Roach, Author of Packing for Mars, Stiff, Spook and Bonk
"Dependably witty, especially when it ventures far into the ether... Roach makes a clever investigator and a thoroughly entertaining, if skeptical, tour guide."
How does the work our bones do influence their size, shape and resilience? Bioengineer Sandra Shefelbine combines number crunching with imaging and practical experiments. She talks to the Wellcome Trust's Daniel Glaser about understanding better how our bones support our bodies. The tendency toward antisocial behaviour may be inherited. But for psychologist Essi Viding heritability isn't inevitability.
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