Understanding spatial patterns of species diversity and the distributions of individ-ual species is a consuming problem in biogeography and conservation. The Cape floristic region of South Africa is a global hot spot of diversity and endemism, and the Protea atlas project, with about 60 000...

Radiation hydrodynamics and radiative shocks are of fundamental interest in the high-energy-density physics research due to their importance in understanding astrophysical phenomena such as supernovae. In the laboratory, experiments can produce shocks with fundamentally similar physics on...