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Expectations are high for the British government's promised White Paper on science, now due to appear next week. Here are some criteria by which its recommendations should be judged.
On the eve of the announcement by the British government of its plan to reorganize the country's scientific enterprise, how should scientists see themselves in relation to the world in which they live?
Much has been done in the past few years to throw light on the energetics of vesicle formation in monolayer and bilayer membranes. The physics of the process is becoming clear, but the chemistry remains obscure.
