Physiology for Tomorrow

Conservation physiology today and tomorrow

Some eight years ago Martin Wikelski and I started musing about how physiological knowledge and tools could be used to understand conservation problems. We were certainly not the first to do so, but we were able to codify the idea by coining the term ‘conservation physiology’ (Wikelski and Cooke, 2006), which has been embraced by many. When the leadership at the Society of Experimental Biology ...

Membrane Engineering for Today and for Tomorrow

Innovating for Tomorrow

But how do we innovate? How do we get someone to create successful software apps?” These questions came from a delegation that had traveled to Silicon Valley to learn the method behind its success. They were from a part of the world in economic decline: local industries had been disrupted by distant plants that used new technology and more e cient processes. The delegation had come to Californi...

Food for tomorrow?

For years, a new culinary trend called ‘molecular cooking’ has been touted as the most exciting development in haute cuisine. It is now the newest fashion for chefs to offer their customers fake caviar made from sodium alginate and calcium, burning sherbets, spaghetti made from vegetables, and instant ice cream, fast-frozen using liquid nitrogen. In the most recent ranking of the world’s top 50...

Concern for Europe’s Tomorrow