UK physics council sees grim future

Edcompcon sees bright future in educational software

Torrey Byles, Contributing Editor Educational software publishing promises to be a billion dollar industry in less than three years, but today the market is saturated with too many suppliers, and the negligible profit margins are restricting investment in further development, according to speakers at Edcompcon in San Jose, November 8-10. Educational packages "are multiplying like mice in a barn...

Women and AIDS: the future is grim.

DNA fragmentation: a skeptic sees a bright future

Male infertility is, perhaps, one of the most complex and poorly understood disease processes in medicine. While some causes of male infertility are clear, the overwhelming majority, remain unknown. Our current treatment approach is to optimize male lifestyle/exposures, endocrine profile, varicocele status (where appropriate) and retrieve sperm or relieve obstruction. One analogy that is freque...

New UK council to curb psychiatry.

Future flavour physics experiments

The current status of flavour physics and the prospects for present and future experiments will be reviewed. Measurements in B-physics, in which sensitive probes of new physics are the CKM angle γ, the Bs mixing phase ϕs, and the branching ratios of the rare decays B(s)0→μ+μ- , will be highlighted. Topics in charm and kaon physics, in which the measurements of ACP and the branching ratios of th...