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Biological Sciences

Protein Bridges DNA Base and Nucleotide Excision Repair Pathways (10/09)

Protein Structure Suggests Role as Molecular Adapter (6/09)

P-Glycoprotein Structure and Chemotherapy Resistance (5/09)

How Dynein Binds to Microtubules (4/09)

Enzyme Structure Provides Insights into Cancer and Aging (2/09)

Structure of the Ebola Virus Glycoprotein Bound to an Antibody from a Human Survivor (11/08)

A Key Enzyme to the Potency of an Anticancer Agent (5/08)

Structure of Synaptic Connectors Solved (4/08)

Topo II: An Enzyme Target for Antibacterial and Cancer Drugs (2/08)

The Biological Implications of the PP2A Crystal Structure (1/08)

A First Look at Yeast Fatty Acid Synthase (11/07)

Unique Auxin Regulation Mechanism Discovered (8/07)

Structure and Receptor Specificity of an Avian Flu Antigen (7/07)

Structure of the Complete 70S Ribosome at 3.7 Å Resolution (6/07)

The Initiation of Bacterial DNA Replication (1/07)

High-Order Membrane Complexes from Activated G-Protein Subunits (6/06)

Structure of the Kinase Domain of CaMKII and Modeling the Holoenzyme (5/06)

Highest-Resolution Ribosome Structure (4/06)

DNA-Binding Mechanism in Prokaryotic Partition Complex Formation (3/06)

First Detailed Look at RNA Dicer (1/06)

Assembly of a Molecular Needle, from the Bottom Up (12/05)

Structural Basis for Activation of Cholera Toxin (11/05)

Protein Flips Lipids Across Membranes (10/05)

Crystal Structure of a Protein Kinase A Complex (10/05)

Substrate Recognition Strategy for Botulinum Neurotoxin (5/05)

How the Membrane Protein AmtB Transports Ammonia (5/05)

 
Polymers and Soft Matter

Self-Assembly of Polymer Nano-Elements on Sapphire (3/09)

Mapping the Nanoscale Landscape (9/06)

First Direct Imaging of Swollen Microgel Particles (2/06)

 
Atomic and Molecular Physics

Molecular-Frame Angular Distributions of Resonant Auger Electrons (5/09)

Probing Core-Hole Localization in Molecular Nitrogen (2/09)

Characterization of Selective Binding of Alkali Cations with Carboxylate (9/08)

The H2 Double-Slit Experiment: Where Quantum and Classical Physics Meet (2/08)

Symmetry Breaking of H2 Dissociation by a Single Photon (7/07)

Long-Range Validity of Threshold Laws in Inner-Shell Photodetachment (3/06)

Photoexcitation of a Volume Plasmon in Buckyballs (8/05)

A Hollow-Ion Resonance of Unprecedented Strength (6/05)

Electron Trapping by Molecular Vibration (4/05)

Explosive Experiment Explores Escaping Electrons (11/04)

Spin-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy (10/04)

 
Chemical Dynamics

Experimental Test of Self-Shielding in VUV Photodissociation of CO (3/09)

Enol Intermediates Unexpectedly Found in Flames (7/05)

 
Semiconductors, Surfaces, and Interfaces

Bilayer Graphene Gets a Bandgap (8/09)

Substrate-Induced Band-Gap Opening in Epitaxial Graphene (3/08)

Diamondoid Monolayers as Monochromatic Electron Source (11/07)

Breakthrough Research on Platinum–Nickel Alloys (2/07)

Probing Organic Transistors with Infrared Beams (7/06)

When DNA Needs to Stand Up and Be Counted (5/06)

Engineering Metal Impurities in Multicrystalline Silicon Solar Cells (10/05)


Nanostructures

Hybrid Rotaxanes: Interlocked Structures for Quantum Computing (8/09)

Reaction-Driven Restructuring of Bimetallic Nanoparticle Catalysts (1/09)

Nanoscale Chemical Imaging of a Working Catalyst (1/09)

Solving the Unsovlable: The Nanostructure of Gold at 1.1 Å Resolution (5/08)

Electronic Structure of Cobalt Nanocrystals Suspended in Liquid (4/08)

Earth and Environmental Science

Preservation of Fe(II) by Carbon-Rich Matrices in Hydrothermal Plumes (4/09)

Isotope and Temperature Effects in Liquid Water Probed by Soft X Rays (9/08)

The Iron Spin Transition in the Earth's Lower Mantle (4/08)

Formation of Metallic Cpper Nanoparticles at the Soil-Root Interface (3/08)

Extracellular Proteins Promote Zinc Sulfide Aggregation (9/07)

Particles from Comet 81P/Wild 2 Viewed by ALS Microscopes (5/07)

Hydrogen Storage in Carbon Nanotubes Through Formation of C-H Bonds (6/06)

Composition and Reactions of Atmospheric Aerosol Particles (6/05)

Energetics of Hydrogen Bond Network Rearrangements in Liquid Water (5/05)

 
Ultrafast/Time-Resolved Studies

Slow Dynamics of Orbital Domains in Manganite (6/08)

Looking at Transistor Gate Oxide Formation in Real Time (6/08)

Ultrafast Core-Hole Induced Dynamics in Water (2/06)

Femtosecond NEXAFS of Photoinduced Insulator-Metal Transition in VO2 (9/05)

Time-Resolved Study of Bonding in Liquid Carbon (9/05)

 
Magnetism

Harnessing the Bacterial Power of Nanomagnets (9/09)

Stochastic Domain-Wall Depinning in Magnetic Nanowires (7/09)

Influence of Domain Wall Pinning on the Dynamic Behavior of Magnetic Vortices (8/08)

Electric Field Control of Local Ferromagnetism with a Magnetoelectric Multiferroic (7/08)

X-Ray Imaging Current-Driven Magnetic Domain-Wall Motion in Nanowires (9/07)

Unexpected Angular Dependence of X-Ray Magnetic Linear Dichroism (8/07)

First Proof of Ferromagnetic Carbon (7/07)

Magnetic Vortex Core Reversal by Low-Field Excitations (3/07)

Electronic Structure and Magnetism in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors (11/06)

Parallel and Antiparallel Interfacial Coupling in AF-FM Bilayers (8/06)

Depth Profile of Uncompensated Spins in an Exchange-Bias System (1/06)

Disorder-Induced Microscopic Magnetic Memory (10/05)

Direct Imaging of Asymmetric Magnetization Reversal (9/05)

Polaron Behavior in CMR Manganites (1/05)


Optics

New Zone Plate for Soft X-Ray Microscopy at 15-nm Spatial Resolution (8/05)


Complex Materials

Towards Heavy Fermions in Europium Intermetallic Compounds (7/09)

Observation of a Macroscopically Quantum-Entangled Insulator (5/09)

Dirac Charge Dynamcs in Graphene by Infrared Spectroscopy (10/08)

Polaron Coherence Condensation in Layered Colossal Resistive Manganites (7/08)

Surprising Quasiparticle Interactions in Graphene (10/07)

First Direct Evidence of Dirac Fermions in Graphite (6/07)

Nature and Origin of the Cuprate Pseudogap (5/07)

Controlling Graphene's Electronic Structure (4/07)

Beyond the Lone-Pair Model for Structurally Distorted Metal Oxides (2/07)

Electron-State Hybridization in Heavy-Fermion Systems (9/06)

First Direct Observation of Spinons and Holons (8/06)

Pseudogaps, Polarons, and the Mystery of High-Tc Superconductivity (4/06)

Tuning of the Metal–Insulator Transition via Alkali Adsorption (3/06)

Vacancy-Induced Nanoscale Wire Structure in Gallium Selenide Layers (12/05)

Influence of Topological Spin Fluctuations on Charge Transport (4/05)

ARPES Provides Direct Evidence of Spin-Wave Coupling (3/05)

A New Gap-Opening Mechanism in a Triple-Band Metal (2/05)

Extracting the Eliashberg Function (2/05)

 
Instrumentation

Robust, High-Throughput Analysis of Protein Structures (10/09)

The ALS X-Ray Streak Camera: Bringing the Ultrafast and Ultrasmall into Focus (03/08)

Laser Seeding Yields High-Power Coherent Terahertz Radiation (4/07)

Tailored Terahertz Pulses from a Laser-Modulated Electron Beam (11/06) 

Biological Imaging by Soft X-Ray Diffraction Microscopy (11/05)

     

 
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