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Last week's meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change at Stockholm seems to have done a useful job, the disappointments of some of its well-wishers notwithstanding.
It is one thing for innovation in agricultural practice to be implemented thoughtlessly; quite another for it to be opposed on principle. The introduction of bovine growth hormone is a case in point.
Calculation from first principles is necessary in establishing the validity of a theory, but less than rigorous intermediate models of reality retain an important function.
The availability of user-friendly scientific image analysis software for the Macintosh II has made the application of digital imaging techniques both practical and cost-effective in many areas of research.
The Scientific Computing and Automation Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 18–20 September, will feature software for numeric computation and curve-fitting applications.
