Editorial Note: Natural Sciences - where Science meets Beauty

Where science meets society.

T he theme for next week's American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting, " The Nexus: Where Science Meets Society, " reminds us of many events of the past few years that suggest that the relationship between science and society is undergoing significant stress. Some members of the public are finding certain lines of scientific research and their outcomes disquieting...

Museum laboratories: where art meets science.

Jitter separation: Where science meets art

In an ideal world, rise and fall times would be infinitely fast and every edge of a digital stream would consistently fall the exact same time away from the last. The end result would be no jitter, no wiggling, and no eyes diagrams that suffer from being closed or close to closed. Unfortunately it is not a perfect world, and what once was conceived as an infinitely fast edge, becomes slower as ...

Editorial: Molecular Organization of Membranes: Where Biology Meets Biophysics

Quantitative biology: where modern biology meets physical sciences

Quantitative methods and approaches have been playing an increasingly important role in cell biology in recent years. They involve making accurate measurements to test a predefined hypothesis in order to compare experimental data with predictions generated by theoretical models, an approach that has benefited physicists for decades. Building quantitative models in experimental biology not only ...