Editor's Summary
13 September 2007
Then as now?
A brief quiz: "Theoretically at least most observers admit that the adoption of the scientific method in the management of the affairs of State is a preliminary necessity if national efficiency is to be secured... but [politicians'] education generally has been of such a character as to leave them with a colossal ignorance of science and scientific methods." The questions: (1) Where? (2) When? And (3), are there any incorrect answers?
News and Views: Atomic physics: A whiff of antimatter soup
A molecule consisting of two electrons and two anti-electrons is similar to, but different from, the familiar hydrogen molecule H2. Its creation heralds a new chapter in the formation of matter–antimatter states.
Clifford M. Surko
doi:10.1038/449153a