The hot, diffuse gas that fills the largest overdense structures in the Universe — clusters of galaxies and a web of giant filaments connecting them — provides us with tools to address a wide array of fundamental astrophysical and cosmological questions via observations in the X-ray band. Clusters are sensitive cosmological probes. To utilize their full potential for precision cosmology in the ...

The communication network and service environment of 2020 will be infinitely richer and more complex than that of today. Our expectation is that in 2020 the network infrastructure will be capable of connecting everything according to a multiplicity of application specific requirements: People, things, processes, computing centres, content, knowledge, information, goods, in a flexible, truly mob...

VISION 2020: The Right to Sight, the global initiative for the elimination of avoidable blindness, has become the fulcrum of all programs for control of blindness worldwide. Just like the five blind men who perceived an elephant differently, policy makers, program planners, eye care professionals and the general population (the main stake holder) have different interpretations for what VISION 2...

We applaud the bold move of creating Lancet Commission on Osteoarthritis, an often forgotten illness.1Hunter DJ March L Chew M Osteoarthritis in 2020 and beyond: a Commission.Lancet. 2020; 396: 1711-1712Summary Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (32) Google Scholar Globally applicable acceptable solutions need transdisciplinary action, which has clearly thought about, given its diverse professional ma...