Climate change and global warming are ever-present topics in the media, but how much can the predictioncs be trusted? David Robson investigates the trials of modelling such complex environmental and meteorlogical data.

Mass spectrometry software plays a major role in scientific detective work, writes Sian Harris.

Clare Sansom on the plethora of data management packages for the chemistry market.

Felix Grant summarises the data analysis software market.

Tom Wilkie reports from the Supercomputing Conference in Dresden.

John Murphy profiles Louis Gross, a mathematical ecologist who's studying the restoration of the Everglades.