Looking back to move forward

Skin Microbiome: Looking Back to Move Forward

Trillions of bacteria, fungi, viruses, archaea, and small arthropods colonize the skin surface, collectively comprising the skin microbiome. Generations of researchers have classified these microbes as transient versus resident, beneficial versus pathogenic, and collaborators versus adversaries. Culturing and direct sequencing of microbial inhabitants identified distinct populations present at ...

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Two decades of sunfleck research: looking back to move forward.

The study of how plants make use of sunflecks, relatively short duration but high-intensity patches of light in the understory and shaded tree canopy, has been of interest for decades. The potential ecological significance of sunflecks was recognized early in the 20th century (Allee 1926, Evans 1956), and the first few studies attempting to quantify the contribution of sunflecks to carbon gain ...

Looking back, looking forward.

Developing intergenerational connections in Manchester Looking back Looking forward 0 Although we may not use the term, all of us enter into intergenerational relationships. As parents, grandparents, children, politicians even, our lives revolve around mutual support and care. The sharing of knowledge and expertise between the generations is the hallmark of healthy, sustainable communities, cre...

Looking Forward, Looking Back

I take the reins of IEEE Internet Computing after 10 years of the magazine's existence, and a crazy 10 years it has been — if not for the magazine itself, then for the Internet. With my first column as editor in chief, I'd like to look back at the past decade and how the magazine has evolved along with the Internet. I picked the column heading, All Systems Go, to highlight one of these evolutio...