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The turn of every year is an occasion for reflection, the present more so than most. When last did a year begin with the well-advertised possibility of a damaging war within 15 days? Here are some reflections for the research community.
A celebration of scientific anniversaries featuring dancing frogs' legs, Java Man, the birth of electromagnetism, French metrication, the classification of screws, a treatise on the astrolabe, and much, much more.
Rare-cutting restriction enzymes, a novel method for cloning and packaging DNA fragments and sequence processor software for the Macintosh—new products for the new year.
