Sacramento, CA, USA. California Governor Jerry Brown (D) has unveiled Climate Change: Just The Facts, a new website that offers a challenge to global warming skeptics.

The move comes as conservative legislators in some states are pushing back against efforts to address the impact of a climate shift.

Stanford, CA, USA. Scientists have completed the world's first complete computer model of an organism, a breakthrough effort for computational biology.

A team used data from more than 900 scientific papers to account for every molecular interaction that takes place in the life cycle of Mycoplasma genitalium, the world's smallest free-living bacterium.

Dresden, Germany. Keywords convey the content of text, emerging from bursts of certain words, and illuminate relationships between sections of text distant from each other.

Eduardo Altmann and colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPIPKS) used statistical methods to study how letters and words correlate with the subject of a text.

Calgary, AB, Canada. Even with all relevant information in hand, quantum mechanics shows that certain experimental outcomes cannot be perfectly predicted ahead of time.

This inability to accurately predict the results of experiments in quantum physics has been subjected to a long debate, but a new paper suggests quantum theory is close to optimal in terms of its predictive power.

Berkeley , CA, USA. Scientists queried and visualized a 3D dataset with values for a trillion particles, enabling the manipulation of physical data at an unprecedented scale.

Modern research tools like supercomputers, particle colliders, and telescopes are generating so much data, so quickly, many scientists fear that soon they will not be able to keep up with the deluge. However, emerging design strategies have the potential to extract interesting data from massive scientific datasets, including those for the biological sciences.