R. B. Woodward's Letters: Revealing, Elegant and Commanding

Woodward's Words: Elegant and Commanding.

Robert Burns Woodward's publications exhibit a beauty and majesty infrequently seen in the scientific literature. Excerpts from Woodward's publications are presented along with a discussion of his literary personality and the effect of his writings on his contemporaries and on the style of the chemical literature that followed.

JBO Letters Revealing retroperitoneal liposarcoma morphology using optical coherence tomography

A new approach to distinguish normal fat, welldifferentiated (WD), and dedifferentiated liposarcoma (LS) tumors is demonstrated, based on the use of optical coherence tomography (OCT). OCT images show the same structures seen with conventional histological methods. Our visual grading analysis is supported by numerical analysis of observed structures for normal fat and WDLS samples. Further deve...

Commanding And Controlling Satellite Clusters

Directorate, we are developing architectures for commanding and controlling a cluster of cooperating satellites through autonomous software development for the TechSat 21 program (see the “TechSat 21” sidebar starting on page XX). Many space missions require large, monolithic satellites. This often results in costly, complex, failure-prone vehicles whose physical size constraints limit their pe...

(submitted to Physics Letters B)

Elegant Equations.

RE EQUATIONS BEAUTIFUL? TO SCIENTISTS, FORMULAS’ ABILITY TO represent fundamental truths or concisely capture complexity is indeed exquisite. To many in the public, though, they can be the opposite of beautiful—intimidating, utilitarian and opaque. Yet for others, the very mystery can be alluring: even when we cannot understand what equations say, we can be moved by knowing they have meanings b...