This month it's all about the brain: Yoshiki Sasai's recipe for growing brain tissue from stem cells, how our early life experiences shape the wiring of our brain's visual centre, and the RIKEN researchers that used brain cells to clone mice frozen for over a decade.

A new kind of microscope that could bring colour to the nanoworld and the latest research from RIKEN's Plant Science Centre.

Learning and memory-building in the brain, the enzyme complex behind metabolic syndrome and the origin of superconductivity.