CONCEPTUAL PAPER On Technological Self-Binding and the Freedom to Revise Decisions “There is no way around artificial intelligence.” Is this a prediction—or a claim that helps make itself true? People learn new skills, employers change requirements and universities reshape courses…
SCIENTIFIC ESSAY Why Europe’s phytopharmaceutical industry continues to conduct research yet struggles to turn it into new herbal medicinal products – and the opportunity that lies in this bottleneck A shelf full of herbal products can look like medical progress.…
SCIENTIFIC ESSAY Toward Decision-Sufficient Differentiation in Precision Medicine Modern medicine can identify ever finer differences between patients, diseases and treatments. Yet not every detectable difference calls for different care. This Scientific Essay asks when medicine may reasonably treat distinguishable states…
RESEARCH COMMENTARY Cistus albidus L., a widespread shrub of the western Mediterranean, is commonly understood through its relationship with fire. Heat can break the physical dormancy imposed by its hard seed coat. Experimental work now shows that sediment-laden runoff may…
NOTE Food systems are commonly compared through concentrations of individual constituents. Yet deliberately matched production or processing populations may also differ in how metabolite abundances co-vary across independent experimental units, even when conventional compositional summaries are similar. We define biochemical…
NOTE Plant compounds such as caffeine, nicotine and morphine did not evolve as medicines, yet they can alter human perception, arousal and behaviour through identifiable biological targets. This Scientific Essay examines that apparent paradox without reducing it to either molecular…