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Respect for authority is not conducive to the sceptical thinking that accompanies originality. But Korea's strong Confucian values are less of an impediment to the country's scientific progress than other, more commonplace obstacles.
The beautiful eyespot patterns on the wings of butterflies help them to evade predators, but they also present biologists with a unique opportunity to investigate the reciprocal interactions of development and evolution.
New on the market has holiday gift ideas for the colleague who has everything, including a geographic information system, a Raman imaging microscope, a phase-shifting interferometer and software for predicting crystal morphologies.
