THE ANNUAL conferences of the American Affiliation for the Development of Science afford researchers an opportunity to indicate off what they do finest. These roaming the corridors in Boston between February thirteenth and fifteenth have been handled to talks on all the pieces from plate tectonics and ancient DNA analysis to gene modifying and nuclear energy. All signify the cutting-edge analysis to be anticipated in a rustic that has lengthy prided itself on, as per this yr’s theme, producing the “science shaping tomorrow”.