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This week's decision by the European Commission to withdraw its proposals for spending on new research creates a crisis (not for the first time), but one from which everybody might eventually profit.
A survey of the state of US astronomy and of what is needed in the coming decade may be a useful model for those wishing to present a coherent case for science in general. But there are pitfalls.
If the weight, but not the inertial mass, of an antiproton should differ from that of a proton, there would be important consequences for the theories of relativity and of particles. But informed opinion is sceptical of the possibility.
A benchtop ultracentrifuge, spin columns for the purification of nucleic acids, chromosomal-grade agarose for megabase DNA separations and capillary electrophoresis columns with novel phases – new product ideas in the separation sciences.
