Scientific Horizons

Horizons in scientific and distributed computing

23 Over the past decade, a remarkable assortment of new communications and computing technologies has surfaced. Scientists and engineers have traditionally been at the forefront of developing and adopting such new technologies. For example, Unix, the Internet, the World Wide Web, and parallel computing incubated in scientific research environments before being mature enough for the general mark...

New Horizons: Anticipated Scientific Investigations at the Pluto System

Leslie A. Young, S. Alan Stern, Harold A. Weaver, Fran Bagenal, Richard P. Binzel, Bonnie Buratti, Andrew F. Cheng, Dale Cruikshank, G. Randall Gladstone, William M. Grundy, David P. Hinson, Mihaly Horanyi, Donald E. Jennings, Ivan R. Linscott, David J. McComas, William B. McKinnon, Ralph McNutt, Jeffery M. Moore, Scott Murchie, Carolyn C. Porco, Harold Reitsema, Dennis C. Reuter, John R. Spenc...

NEW HORIZONS New horizons in osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common type of arthritis worldwide and rapidly increasing with ageing populations. It is a major source of pain and disability for individuals and economic burden for health economies. Modern imaging, in particular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), has helped us to understand that OA is a dynamic remodelling process involving all the structures within the joint. ...

TWIN EARTH AND ITS HORIZONS: ON HERMENEUTICS, REFERENCE, AND SCIENTIFIC THEORY CHOICEphil_408

In a galaxy long ago and far away, there lived two strikingly different tribes. When stumbling across an unfamiliar object, members of one tribe—call them the Angles—picked it up, squinting in the light, examined it, tried to determine its intrinsic properties through measurement, weighing, and eventually chemical analysis and so on, ultimately attempting to develop precise criteria for disting...

Expanding horizons