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The Cell: An Image Library. Virtual Human Embryo. Microscope Imaging Station. Biomedical Beat: May 20, 2009 - National Institute of General Me. IN THIS ISSUE . . . May 20, 2009 Check out the Biomedical Beat Cool Image Gallery. Got research news to share?

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Hover over the image to see two snapshots of the fruit fly brain. Full story Cirelli profile Cirelli lab Article abstract (from the April 3 issue of Science) A long-lasting local anesthetic could revolutionize pain treatment. Full story Kohane profile Article abstract (from the April 13 online issue of PNAS) We are not alone. Photomicrography Competition. Bio-Alive Biology and Life Science Video Search Engine. Microscope Imaging Station. Wellcome-images. Science Photo Library | Stock science images.

Images of life on Earth. Wildscreen's Arkive project was launched in 2003 and grew to become the world's biggest encyclopaedia of life on Earth. With the help of over 7,000 of the world’s best wildlife filmmakers and photographers, conservationists and scientists, Arkive.org featured multi-media fact-files for more than 16,000 endangered species. Freely accessible to everyone, over half a million people every month, from over 200 countries, used Arkive to learn and discover the wonders of the natural world. Since 2013 Wildscreen was unable to raise sufficient funds from trusts, foundations, corporates and individual donors to support the year-round costs of keeping Arkive online.

Therefore, the charity had been using its reserves to keep the project online and was unable to fund any dedicated staff to maintain Arkive, let alone future-proof it, for over half a decade. Therefore, a very hard decision was made to take the www.arkive.org website offline in February 2019. FlowingData | Data Visualization, Infographics, and Statistics.

Various ways to rate a college. There are a bunch of college ratings out there to help students decide what college to apply to (and give something for alumni to gloat about). The tough part is that there doesn't seem to be any agreement on what makes a good college. Alex Richards and Ron Coddington describe the discrepancies. Notice how few measures are shared by two or more raters. That indicates a lack of agreement among them on what defines quality. Much of the emphasis is on “input measures” such as student selectivity, faculty-student ratio, and retention of freshmen.

Except for graduation rates, almost no “outcome measures,” such as whether a student comes out prepared to succeed in the work force, are used. This, on top of spotty data across universities, makes rankings, especially for schools that are close in ratings to each other, difficult to know which one to follow. But you already knew that, right? One thing is for sure though. [Thanks, Ron] Information Is Beautiful | Ideas, issues, knowledge, data - visualized!

Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen. BioVisions. Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset. Protein Data Bank. A Structural View of Biology This resource is powered by the Protein Data Bank archive-information about the 3D shapes of proteins, nucleic acids, and complex assemblies that helps students and researchers understand all aspects of biomedicine and agriculture, from protein synthesis to health and disease.

As a member of the wwPDB, the RCSB PDB curates and annotates PDB data. The RCSB PDB builds upon the data by creating tools and resources for research and education in molecular biology, structural biology, computational biology, and beyond. Use this website to access curated and integrated biological macromolecular information in the context of function, biological processes, evolution, pathways, and disease states. A Molecular View of HIV Therapy January Molecule of the Month Nuclear Pore Complex Deposition Preparation Tools Data Extraction Small Molecules Ligand Expo: Search the Chemical Component Dictionary for the IDs of released ligands Data Format Conversion 3D Structure Viewers. BioVisions. Molecular Animation - Where Cinema and Biology Meet. Fire and Water on a Hot, Turbulent Planet - Dot Earth Blog. The Earth Observatory Web site of NASA is a vital portal, not only providing data that help scientists clarify global conditions and trends but also reminding people, once in awhile, of the special nature of this pale blue (and green) dot.

Today’s images show the scope of two unfolding disasters — involving excessive fire and water — related to extreme climate conditions that are projected to become more frequent in a heating world. The fires sweeping parched, baked peat bogs and forests in western Russia have raised a vast smoke pall captured by NASA satellites. (See similar images of Canada’s smoke pall to get a sense of the severity of the Russian blazes.) At the same time, NASA has posted images of the Indus River valley in Pakistan vividly showing the scope of severe flooding, the worst in 70 years, that has displaced several million people. The first image below is of the region in a normal condition for this time of year, and the second is of the conditions on August 2.

SciVee: Pioneering New Modes of Scientific Dissemination | Pione. Idee und Klang - BMW Museum - BWM INSPIRATION - Kinetic Sculpture. Gizmos! Online simulations that power inquiry and understanding. Java Boids Simulator - Demonstrating Bird Flocking using jogl.