A Landsman's Log Aboard the Battleship “North Dakota”—I.

Cytokinesis: A New Lipid Aboard the Raft

Several components of membrane rafts play a critical role in cytokinesis. A recent paper reports a new lipid component of these rafts required for proper cell division.

An Interactive Augmented Reality Battleship Game Implementation

Serious Games have acquired an unquestionable position in a wide domain of applications. An illustration of these timeless games is Battleship. Despite being recognized as a traditional pencil and paper game, there have been numerous commercial proposals under the form of both board and video games. The authors’ vision consisted in modelling Battleship in a computerized form, both logic and gra...

All Aboard

Defibrillation aboard a commercial aircraft.

A 53-year-old executive (6 ft 3 in tall; 327 lb) with a history of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and coronary artery disease (coronary artery angioplasty in 1995) was traveling with his wife on vacation and ran to catch a connecting flight. The plane had closed the doors for takeoff when his wife noted that he was unresponsive. A flight attendant brought out the on-board automatic external d...

Aboard the Isotope Time Machine

Several years ago, paleontologist Shaena Montanari was doing field work in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert when she noticed fragments of dinosaur eggshells in the sand. She knew them by distinctive lines and bumps on their surfaces. Montanari, then a graduate student at the American Museum of Natural History, and now a Royal Society fellow at the University of Edinburgh, realized she could use the fragm...