CAUL’S Diamond Anniversary

Our diamond birthday anniversary.

G ENETICS is 75 years old. Volume 1, number 1 was dated January, 1916 and with this issue the journal begins its 76th year. At this ripe age, the journal shows none of the telltale signs of senescence; it is still in the growth phase. Although the science of genetics has changed enormously-has indeed been revolutionized-the important features of GENETICS have remained intact. It is still, as it...

A double diamond anniversary-Kyshtym and Windscale: the nuclear accidents of 1957.

Spongy Diamond

Rhombellanes are mathematical structures existing in various environments, in crystal or quasicrystal networks, or even in their homeomorphs, further possible becoming real molecules. Rhombellanes originate in the K2.3 complete bipartite graph, a tile found in the linear polymeric staffanes. In close analogy, a rod-like polymer derived from hexahydroxy-cyclohexane was imagined. Further, the ide...

Happy Anniversary!

On this day in 1987, shares of Procter & Gamble were a tad weak, trading down 23 1/4 to 61. Philip Morris was off 15 1/8 at 87 1/2, Disney fell 19 1/8 to 46 and shares of Dupont were also under pressure, falling 18 1/2 to 80. The DJIA dropped 508 on volume of 605 million shares. The (perhaps apocryphal) story is told that Fed Chairman Greenspan -not wishing to unsettle jittery markets by alteri...

Anniversary uptake

Watson, who realised at once that it provided crucial evidence for the double helix. “But science is not supposed to be kept in bags, any more than cats,” Wilkins responded. His sombre mien contrasted sadly with the story of robust commercialisation which came later. Gosling’s view was that “Rosy would have been appalled to learn that they had taken quite so much detail of her current work and ...