An alive publication is a new genre for presenting the results of scientific research, which means that work published online and then constantly developing improving by its author. Serious errors typos are no longer fatal, nor do they haunt author rest his or her life. The reader an knows monitoring changes occurring in this branch science. Alive faces inertia publishing traditions and, partic...

Zsolt Bertalan, Ashivni Shekhawat, James P. Sethna, and Stefano Zapperi ISI Foundation, Via Alassio 11/c, 10126 Torino, Italy Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA LASSP, Physics Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 1...