When I was a geeky child, the highlight of each month was the arrival of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, with its lurid interstellar and darkly apocalyptic covers.
The arrival of big data science in the last two decades constitutes another scientific revolution.
But former president Meunier, a physicist, released a letter to his staff last week expressing disagreement with the administration of CNRS, saying that "by stepping down, I wish to speed the arrival of a new leadership" (Science, 13 January, p. 161).
The generously funded, graduate-only university welcomed the arrival of a prominent U.S. science administrator to oversee its research and innovation efforts and also announced the winning global teams for its first three research centers.
Whether it's the rise of robotics or the demise of antibiotics, travelling to Mars or the arrival of 3D printed food, science is changing our world at an extraordinary pace.
But new laboratory results reported in tomorrow's issue of Science challenge the late arrival of this "Great Oxidation Event".
It's not rocket science – the arrival of Modern Warfare 2 now counts among the planet's most successful entertainment launches.
We had been awaiting the arrival of Scott Travis, of the Comer Science and Education Foundation, who will be accompanying us on our expedition to the Rinchen Zoe region of the Bhutan Himalaya.
A Star Trek-style telephone that automatically translates between languages was first mooted earlier this year and, while its arrival is a few years away, it's no longer the stuff of science fiction.
"The arrival of the US team at the Ryder Cup this week resembled an invasion of science teachers, lost in time and space after an experiment went wrong back in 1977," commented Hannah Betts, a fashion writer on the Daily Telegraph.
