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The collapse of the Reykjavik pre-summit at the weekend is mystifying, explicable only if both sides stood unreasonably on principles that could not have mattered.
Three-quarters of a century after the concept of quantum jump was introduced by Bohr, three independent measurements have emerged on each other's heels.
Britain is falling behind the major industrialized countries in its investment in academic and related research, which may explain the nation's declining contribution to world science.
Interactive computer graphics designed for protein crystallography has also helped visualize a 5,000-year-old excavation site in three dimensions. Tomorrow's archaeologists stand to benefit from this marriage of the very old and the very new.
