Complacency at the gates

A Crisis of Humanitarianism: Refugees at the Gates of Europe

Having initially welcomed more than a million refugees and forced migrants into Europe between 2015 and 2016, the European Union’s (EU’s) policy has shifted toward externalising migration control to Turkey and Northern Africa. This goes against the spirit of international conventions aiming to protect vulnerable populations, yet there is widespread indifference toward t...

Trypanosomes at the gates.

L ike many colleagues, I sometimes thought I'd never see the day when three small parasites would be so celebrated. After all, why should people outside of the small cohort of dedicated scientists and sponsors pay any attention to these " Tritryps " —Trypanosoma brucei, Trypanosoma cruzi, and Leishmania major— whose genomes appear in this issue of Science? These three motile, unicellular, nucle...

Complacency--the silent killer.

Complacency in coronary care.

From modest beginnings in 1962 in Kansas City, Philadelphia, and Toronto, the coronary care unit has become at once an institution and a revolution in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction. The CCU was synthesized from now well known innovations in resuscitation, monitoring, and in the electrical treatment of arrhythmias. Its early history was written by small units of three to four beds...

Artificial intelligence at the gates of dawn?

In recent years, there have been significant achievements in different areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) which made it to the headlines. After Deep Blue was the first computer program winning against a ruling world champion of chess in 1997, which was a milestone in the history of AI, the Mars Rover missions started in the early 2000s for which intelligent autonomous planning and control is...