Cutting and converging the sciences

This BBC News report appears at first glance to be bad news for science at U.K. universities, but it also seems that some universities understand what technological convergence really means:

"Others surveyed were introducing or putting more money into combined science courses, like chemistry with nanotechnology , law chemistry and physics with pilot studies." More here

Now, maybe programs like this will get the chemists, physicists, biologists and computer modelers all into one room. Couldn't hurt, anyway.

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