Loving beasts

Fabulous beasts and demons

Mythical beasts and fabulous animals have always proved to be a popular theme and many books describing them have already appeared. This one, however, is probably the largest, and certainly the most sumptuously illustrated. It also deals more adequately with the rich oriental aspects of the theme than most of its predecessors. Written by a professor of oriental archaeology in the University of ...

DNA or loving care?

to five contestants might be involved in child-custody conflicts. As cases of ART in which third parties are involved become more common, the issue of what constitutes a parent is now, perhaps more than ever, highly contested. There is no consensus on what parents are or what they should be. At the heart of the issue are at least two important questions. First, what is the relative importance a...

The ethics of loving care.

Platonic beasts: Spherically symmetric multilimbed robots

We describe a new class of spherically symmetric, high degree of freedom robots called “platonic beasts.” A robot in this family is kinematically equivalent to a symmetric polyhedron, such as one of the Platonic solids, with identical multi-purpose limbs attached to its vertices. The symmetry and regularity of the design have several advantages including robustness to toppling, novel gaits such...

Sustaining metal-loving plants in mining regions.

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 337 7 SEPTEMBER 2012 1141 COVER Artist’s conception of the complex network of relationships between disease and the human genome. Hundreds of diseases and traits (represented by colored dots) have been mapped to specifi c chromosomal positions in the genome. Most disease-associated genetic variants fall outside of protein-coding genes, instead affecting the genome...