Abstract
With this issue EPL has explored and crossed a frontier, leaving the confines of the globe. How? By publishing what is, I believe, the first manuscript ever submitted from beyond the globe, namely from the international space station ISS.
In May 2011 EPL celebrated its 25th anniversary with a scientific symposium on "Frontiers in Physics" at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Munich where H. Thomas gave an overview over the excellent research at the ISS. This had prompted me to suggest in an interview which I gave in the evening of the same day to Physics World that—although being European based—EPL is indeed a truly global journal but would certainly also accept manuscripts from beyond the globe. And now I have been taken at my words.