Reason and Unreason in Twenty-first Century Science

Law and Social Science in the Twenty-first Century

The use of social science—of psychology in particular—to inform legal theory and practice is fast becoming the latest craze in the pages of legal academia. Books and symposia have recently been devoted to the interplay between psychology and law and between emotions and the law, and to the application of other psychological and social scientific research to legal questions. An increasing number...

Intervention Ecology: Applying Ecological Science in the Twenty-first Century

Going Native. Emotion Science in the Twenty-First Century

Twenty-first century vaccines.

In the twentieth century, vaccination has been possibly the greatest revolution in health. Together with hygiene and antibiotics, vaccination led to the elimination of many childhood infectious diseases and contributed to the increase in disability-free life expectancy that in Western societies rose from 50 to 78-85 years (Crimmins, E. M. & Finch, C. E. 2006 Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 103, 498-5...

Multiscale Science 1 a Challenge for the Twenty-first Century

The Scope. Multiscale science is the study of phenomena which couple distinct length or time scales. It would be diicult to overstate the scope of multiscale science. Multiscale issues are central to such diverse elds as uid dynamics, material science, biology, environmental science, chemistry, geology, meteorology, and high energy physics. In short, multiscale science cuts across virtually all...