I t is rare that science owes a debt to law. To lawmakers, surely, such as those who regularly make generous appropriations to the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. But law, in the sense of the process and products of litigation? It’s hard to imagine. But this special supplement is deeply in debt to law in just that sense. The funding that supports the research ...

Modern medicine is practised under increasingly challenging conditions. The accelerating pace at which new information becomes available can be overwhelming. The physician is asked to function as a dual agent: to serve the patient’s interests and, at the same time, to be responsible to society (through government) for the appropriate management of limited resources. As if this weren’t enough, t...

, © Pauw This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and redistribution in any medium, provided that the original author and source are credited. For years, we have been trying to compare scattering patterns from different instruments. While this leads to reasonable results, there are pr...