Science Networking Gets Serious

A new breed of networking applications offers scientists much more than typical social networking sites, but how useful are they? Amy Maxmen reports

Video Games and the Second Life of Science Class

Can video games and computer simulations revive science education in the US? Amy Maxmen has the story

Jeremy Farrar: When disaster strikes

Jeremy Farrar had not intended to be at the forefront of avian influenza research. But as the director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Ho Chi Minh City, the bird flu outbreak found him