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In the knowledge that the scientific enterprise is genuinely international and in the belief that Mr Mikhail Gorbachev's speech to the United Nations on 3 December offers us all the promise of a different world, Nature makes the following announcement to and solicitation of its readers.
An anniversarial cornucopia featuring rubber gloves, Louis Ilosvay de Nagy-Ilosva, the Eiffel Tower, nuclear fission, the Swedish Academy of Sciences, J. Willard Gibbs, the omega minus meson, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Timothy the tortoise and much, much more.
Start the year off with a new addition to the laboratory — this week's selection includes an infrared hotplate, a software model for teratogenicity studies, and a balance that calculates molarity.
