:: Penrose claims to have glimpsed universe before Big Bang

Article found here published in physicsworld.com.
Abstract and paper originally posted on arXiv Blog.

Reference:  arXiv: 1011.3706 [astro-ph.CO]

:: Survey of Nearest Neighbor Techniques

A concise and thorough survey of nearest neighbor methods.

Abstract and paper originally posted on The Physics arXiv Blog.
Reference:  arXiv:1007.0085v1

:: Physicists Convert Information Into Energy

Article found here published in Technology Review.
Abstract and paper originally posted on The Physics arXiv Blog.

Reference:  arXiv:1009.5287v2

:: From eye to brain: Salk researchers map functional connections between retinal neurons at single-cell resolution

"By comparing a clearly defined visual input with the electrical output of the retina, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies were able to trace for the first time the neuronal circuitry that connects individual photoreceptors with retinal ganglion cells, the neurons that carry visual signals from the eye to the brain."

A unique neural recording system developed by an international team of high energy physicists, which is able to record simultaneously the tiny electrical signals generated by hundreds of the retinal output neurons, is one of the essential elements of the study. Recording electrodes are shown in the foreground and retinal ganglion cells in the background.
Image: Courtesy of Dr. E.J. Chichilnisky, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Original Press Release from the Salk Institute

:: Stockhausen and Self Assembly

The flat-pack Stockhausen (original article)

An article from the guardian.co.uk about a new recording of Stockhausen's piece Plus Minus. The score (diagram) for this composition provides performers the basic "material" for completion of the indeterminate piece.

Thanks to Peter Lloyd Jones for sending this my way.

:: Chromoscope

 

"View the Universe

Chromoscope has been created using public-domain datasets from a number of all-sky astronomy projects. It lets you easily move around the sky and fade between wavelengths using a simple user-interface to illustrate the similarities and differences between what is visible at each wavelength.

There are currently seven included: gamma ray (Fermi), X-ray (ROSAT), H-alpha (WHAM), optical (DSS), infrared (IRAS), microwave (WMAP) and radio (Haslam). You can click on the credit information, shown at the bottom-right of the Chromoscope screen, to learn more about each survey."

from www.chromoscope.net

see also Planck's View

:: The Challenge of Molecular Communication

Article found here published in Technology Review.
Abstract and paper originally posted on The Physics arXiv Blog.

:: Novel theory how the classical world emerges from quantum mechanics

Scientists at the University of Vienna present a novel theory how the classical world emerges from quantum mechanics.

Link to SEED article.
With supporting scientific papers found here and here.

:: World of Change: Solar Activity

World of Change: Solar Activity

  From the NASA Earth Observatory