A pitcher of things to come

Article Abstract:

The creation of novel combinations of species and environmental conditions by humans is rapidly driving Earth's ecosystems into untrodden territories and creative approaches are required to extract the greatest insight into these changes from the fewest data. Scientists have come up with an approach that can extract most important interactions in a community and so predict its dynamics by manipulating habitat size and predator abundance.

United Kingdom, Analysis, Environmental aspects, Ecosystems, Pitcher plants

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Science's fiction

Article Abstract:

Issues concerning the degree of imagination used in scientific exploration are discussed. Particular attention is given to similarities between art, poetry and science, as well as to the etymological meaning of the word' fiction' and its realistic implications.

Literature, Fiction, Literature and science

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Strings and things

Article Abstract:

Issues are presented concerning the difficulties which can be faced by mathematicians and physicists in explaining new theories through the use of everyday language. The example of superstrings is discussed.

Mathematicians, Language and languages, Physicists, Superstring theories

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