News Feature in 2011

Blogs and tweets are ripping papers apart within days of publication, leaving researchers unsure how to react.

Climate change means that national parks of the future won't look like the parks of the past. So what should they look like?

Japanese hospitals are using near-infrared imaging to help diagnose psychiatric disorders. But critics are not sure the technique is ready for the clinic.

In the past two decades, the green-chemistry movement has helped industry become much cleaner. But mindsets change slowly, and the revolution still has a long way to go.

Researchers have spent 25 years exploring the remarkable properties of fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and graphene. But commercializing them is neither quick nor easy.