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Seems like astrologists were somehow right... Ptolemy would be proud.

Greetings from July :-) On an unrelated note... this chart made me suddenly realise I've been always thinking of the year as passing counter-clockwise and starting at the bottom. Very strongly. Seems like some tempo-spatial association. Anybody has a similar feeling?

Quantum Cascade Lasers are rising in the mid-infrared region, the so-called fingerprint zone of the electromagnetic spectrum for a whole bunch of chemical species that we are most of times interested in sensing. One more sign of the underlying importance of this technology comes just by seeing NSF, USHS, Naval Air Command and NASA as the main monetary contributors to this research.

It was also presented during SpaceTech.

sorry reposted that again, since I work thru my emails backwards ;)

for the dropbox users.. in case you e.g. would like to add things behind restrictive firewalls to your dropbox shared drives

are they going to see the content of all my dropbox after the authorisation process this requires?

I dunno but it would be nice if you could give permission to specific folders ... dunno how the API handles it...

haha. this guy won't have any new friends with this article! I kind of agree but making your code public doesn't mean you are doing good science...and inversely! He takes experimental physics as a counter example but even there, some teams keep their little secrets on the details of the experiment to have a bit of advance on other labs. Research is competitive in its current state, and I think only collaborations can overcome this fact.

My view is that the only proper way to do scientific communication is full transparency: methodologies, tests, codes, etc. Everything else should be unacceptable. This should hold both for publicly funded science (for which there is the additional moral requirement to give back to the public domain what was produced with taxpayers' money) and privately-funded science (where the need to turn a profit should be of lesser importance than the proper application of the scientifc method).

Same battle we are fighting since a few years....

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Again bio-photonics. Cool subject, should have a look into.

really interesting and fascinating what evolution can do...!

Gradient material properties - here in squid beaks - but also in other bio-models are extremely cool.

This is on the trend of having a dozen of authors on mini papers and how it could be dealt with.

Combining biomolecular function with integrated circuit technology could usher in a new era of biologically enabled electronics.

like this particularly and would even go one step further: take one day or one half day during the week internet free - just unplug the cable. We did this during my PhD in our lab and it really helped! LS

I am quite amazed that they apparently still use the capsules to return the pictures??? Hard to believe .... "Kobalt spacecraft reportedly carry canisters to return film to Earth during the satellite's mission, which will last at least several months."

Anna, Sante, some Christmas reading! Real theoretical physicists never sleep ;)

maybe we can use some neural networks to do animal "speech" recognition? :P