Volcanology: Out of the ashes

Ashes to ashes

The Natural History Museum in London is to return the remains of 8 aboriginal people to the Australian government. The remains include the skull of an aboriginal person thought to have been illegally exported to Britain in 93. The rest comprise the remains of 7 indigenous individuals from Tasmania and will be returned after a three-month period of study by scientists. Museum director Michael Di...

Astrophysics. Ashes to ashes: the inner lives of neutron stars.

Ashes to ashes: the history of smoking and health

When I read Richard Doll's and Bradford Hill's paper in the British Medical Journal of 30 September 1950 on smoking and lung cancer, I thought that was the end of the matter; the evidence was overwhelming. When, a few years later, they reported their prospective findings on doctors addressed "to the survivors" there was nothing more to be said. Everyone would stop smoking, lung cancer incidence...

The role of laboratory experiments in volcanology

Experiment is central to scienti¢c methodology. Within science in general, experiments are used for four primary purposes, i.e. as a tool to explore novel phenomena and to provide systematic observations of processes, to determine the values of key parameters, to test hypotheses and theoretical models, and to validate computational models, which themselves can be considered as numerical experim...

Rising out of the ashes: additive genetic variation for susceptibility to Hymenoscyphus fraxineus in Fraxinus excelsior

Ash dieback due to Hymenoscyphus fraxineus is threatening the Fraxinus excelsior species in most of its natural range in Europe and it is becoming obvious that other species in the Fraxinus genus are susceptible to the disease. The fungal pathogen apparently originates from Asia where it may act as an endophyte of local species like F. mandshurica. Previous studies reported significant levels o...