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The European Commission is disappointed that past investment in research and development has not yet made European electronics flourish. It may be over-impatient, but it also needs a better strategy.
An International climate convention will require a means of measuring relative national emissions of greenhouse gases that is simple, fair and (preferably) empirical.
Enthusiasm for a global tax on carbon used as fuel as a means of forfending global warming is infectiously seductive, but would probably not work and would certainly dodge the main issue in the greenhouse negotiations that lie ahead.
The computational capabilities of a single neuron depend to a large extent upon the structural and electrical properties of its dendritic branches. New modelling algorithms and a new generation of powerful UNIX workstations are being applied to the study of neuronal information processing.
Neuroscientists will convene in St Louis, Missouri, next week for the 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Product exhibits will include an implantable osmotic pump for controlled drug delivery, pocket-sized data loggers and monoclonal antibodies for detecting microtubule-associated proteins.
