• Diversity is alive in managed forests

  The biodiversity of plants and animals under our cultivated forests is better than expected, writes Claire O'Connell p
  

• Study probes excess of iron in Irish blood

  We have the highest incidence in Europe of the disease that struck the late Brian Lenihan, writes Dick Ahlstrom p
  

• Unlikely allies in the war against waste

  Families of microbes might become power sources of the future to gobble up waste and spit out pure energy as hydrogen and methane, writes Dick Ahlstrom p
  

• Time to take a new look at gender and balance

   Under the Microscope Prof William Reville Mary Wilson interviewed John Walsh, Education Correspondent, Irish Independent, on RTÉ Radio 1 Drivetime (January 9th), about the latest figures on intake to third-level education, broken down by gender. Mary introduced the topic: "Most of the doctors, dentists and lawyers of the future will be women, if new CAO figure are anything to go by. p
  

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