Our publishing company MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) planned to launch this journal Life (ISSN 2075-1729) since June 2009. Life science as a topic covers a very broad area. We decided to focus the scope of this new journal on the origin of life and the evolution of biosystems such as molecular evolution. Of course any fundamental theoretical topics and experimental disco...

Although forensic science has long been an area of public interest, the recent and extraordinary success of hit TV shows such as the CSI series is thought to have brought about a new generation of students with an interest in forensic science. Despite the widespread belief that the number of forensic science programs in the United States has grown over recent years in response to this heightene...

The use of numerical information and statistical methods is increasing sharply among forensic scientists publishing research and presenting analytical results for peer and judicial review. The importance of their work should not be obscured by the tendency for complex statistical analyses to confuse and mislead. Some considerations that would assist in our statistical communication include: sou...

The name of my talk is Pure Science and Applied Science, and the idea I would like to sell to you today is that there is no such thing as “pure” or “applied” science. In other words, there is such a thing as science, but there is no difference between pure and applied science. Science is one entity and cannot be separated into different categories. In order to back that up, I would like to tell...

OR AT DEPTH, PERCOLATING UP? EVIDENCE (SUCH AS IT IS) FROM CARBONATES. Monica M. Grady 1,3 , M. Anand 2,3 , M. A. Gilmour 1 , J. S. Watson 1 and I. P. Wright 1 1 PSSRI, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK ([email protected]), 2 Dept. of Earth Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK, 3 Dept. of Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum, Londo...

a Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA b Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA c Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA d Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA e Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridg...

1NNF Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark 2Departments of Life Science, Faculty of Human Nutrition, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark 3Department of Internal Medicine, Gentofte Hospital, DK-2900 Hellerup, Denmark #Contributed equally to the preparation of this...