Live from the Biggest Science Conference in the World: Welcome!

Welcome to the biggest science conference on earth from the world's largest science society—the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Discover is here in Boston, exploring Science and Technology from a Global Perspective, blogging on four days of lectures, presentations, interviews, and discussion from hundreds of researchers, thinkers, and developers of science and technology. Keep your eye on Discoblog for updates from AAAS on the latest work with satellites and climate change, a look at sharks' key roles in the ocean, new ways to get rid of nuclear waste, how statistics—not steroids—have ruined baseball, robotic development, and a variety of other topics we'll be covering.