Space science decadal surveys available

The plant science decadal vision.

The enormous challenges to 21st century societies that include rapidly rising global population, ensuring food security, the need for increased food production in the face of changing climates with lower agricultural inputs, guaranteeing adequate nutrition to reduce the global burden of chronic disease, and the escalating need for energy produced from renewable feedstocks, have been viewed as p...

The plant science decadal vision: response to the Martin commentary.

Portable reality: Expanding available space

All of the components for creating fully immersive virtual worlds have suddenly become ubiquitous and cheap, often built into devices that we have already in our pockets and on our desktops. These devices have everything they need to become state-of-the-art platforms for immersive games and virtual reality: powerful graphics, high-resolution displays, and precision sensors. Just add some optics...

Science, statistics and surveys: a herpetological perspective

Bridging the gap between conservation science and conservation practice is a widely acknowledged issue in applied ecology (Hulme 2011). Nowhere is the gap greater than in the area of data collection, analysis and interpretation. Population assessments for conservation are frequently based on traditional practices that use rules of thumb and quasi-quantitative methods. This means that important ...

Space science. Science emerges from shadows of China's space program.

7 JUNE 2002 VOL 296 SCIENCE www.sciencemag.org 1788 BEIJING—Sometime in the next year or two China will attempt to launch a person into space. If it succeeds, it would become only the third nation to accomplish such a feat, and the achievement would be a powerful symbol of China’s increasing technological sophistication. But the media coverage of the buildup to the expected launch has so far ta...