Join Alexandra Witze at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, Texas from 8-11 January. She’ll be sending diary reports back here as astronomers gear up for the International Year of Astronomy in 2009.

Join Alexandra Witze at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, Texas from 8-11 January. She’ll be sending diary reports back here as astronomers gear up for the International Year of Astronomy in 2009.

Join Nature at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. Our reporters will be posting diary reports here from Monday 10 December, with all the latest news on the Earth, the ocean, and beyond to the stars.

Join Nature at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. Our reporters will be posting diary reports here from Monday 10 December, with all the latest news on the Earth, the ocean, and beyond to the stars.

Olive Heffernan, editor of Nature Reports Climate Change, is at the UN Framework Convention for Climate Change meeting in Bali for the next two weeks. You can read her diary reports from the event on the Climate Feedback blog.

Check out all of Nature’s coverage in our special.

Olive Heffernan, editor of Nature Reports Climate Change, is at the UN Framework Convention for Climate Change meeting in Bali for the next two weeks. You can read her diary reports from the event on the Climate Feedback blog.

Check out all of Nature’s coverage in our special.

Brendan Maher will be blogging from this conference in DC from Sunday 2 December. Check out his diary reports here on In the Field.

Brendan Maher will be blogging from this conference in DC from Sunday 2 December. Check out his diary reports here on In the Field.

Researchers have found a drug that can reduce aggressive behaviour in feral rats that have been trained to be violent. Check out the news story on Nature News.

Researchers have found a drug that can reduce aggressive behaviour in feral rats that have been trained to be violent. Check out the news story on Nature News.