News Features, January 2009

• Neuroscience: Making connections - Premium content

  By turning neurons technicolour, Jeff Lichtman exposed the brain's wiring. Jonah Lehrer meets the 'unapologetic cell biologist' with ambitions to map every connection in the human brain.

  28 January 2009

• Behavioural Science: Secret signals - Premium content

  Are people's interactions driven by a primitive, non-linguistic type of communication? Mark Buchanan looks at how modern technology can reveal the basis of our powers of persuasion.

  28 January 2009

• Renewable energy: Beijing's windy bet - Premium content

  After spurning wind power, China has swung around and embraced this clean energy. But the nation's love affair with wind may be spinning out of control, finds David Cyranoski.

  21 January 2009

• Social networking: Crisis communication - Premium content

  Messages appear on Internet-based social networks within minutes of disasters occurring. Lea Winerman investigates how to harness this trend to create official community-response grids.

  21 January 2009

• Bush's legacy: 43 by the numbers - Premium content

  A look at George W. Bush's legacy in science.

  14 January 2009

• Bush's legacy: An unlikely champion - Premium content

  Was setting up PEPFAR — a massive HIV treatment programme — the best thing that President Bush ever did? Erika Check Hayden investigates.

  14 January 2009

• Bush's legacy: The wasted years - Premium content

  In the first of three features on the legacy of the Bush administration, Declan Butler looks at the United States' failure to deal with the risks of nuclear proliferation.

  14 January 2009

• Ocean research: The lab at the bottom of the sea - Premium content

  The best way to study life beneath the waves is to live there. Mark Schrope describes his experiences in the world's longest-running undersea laboratory.

  7 January 2009

• Forestry: A green investment - Premium content

  If growing forests in India can generate lucrative carbon credits, then why isn't everyone planting trees? Paroma Basu reports.

  7 January 2009